Thanks All for your inputs, all are useful On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Praveen Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > A bit confused with "free Linux/Ubuntu VMs". > Do you mean you looking for VM image ( to directly run your tests ) > or an emulator to create VMs locally and play around. > > For the first, I have not tried with. Probably vmware images can be found > at : > http://www.osboxes.org/vmware-images/ > > But, if you are looking for emulators, I would say Xen and Virtualbox. > I use them for most of my development for linux kernel related work > items. To start with, I would suggest you to start with Virtualbox. > Its easy to begin w.r.t. configuration, installation and other items. > > Link : https://www.virtualbox.org/ > > Regards, > > ~Praveen. > > On 14 March 2017 at 15:45, François <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:18:33PM +0800, Freeman Zhang wrote: > >> On 3/14/17 12:04 PM, Balaji Barmavat wrote: > >> > Anybody's has any VM's links to download, for practice kernel > >> programming? > >> > >> Well, I am using QEMU system emulator, for it's easier to connect to GDB > >> debugging and itself handles bootloader thing. You can set all things up > >> by one line parameters, really tidy. > >> > >> The disadvantage is that I've been told system running in QEMU is slow, > >> but for kernel programming that wouldn't be the problem, will it? > >> > >> What about others? > > > > Depending on what you're working on, you can also use User Mode Linux > > (UML) [1] which produces a elf, that you can run easily on top of your > > existing linux distro. > > Basically, you have to choose the "um" arch when compiling your kernel. > > > > [1] http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kernelnewbies mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >
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