I can setup QEMU. But, I will be needing a filesystem with my desired kernel and neccessary utils. How create such simple filesystem? and boot it from QEMU?
Thanks all for your helpful responses. :) On 8 March 2010 06:18, Tonny Adhi Sabastian <[email protected]> wrote: > Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > >> Hi >> >> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Paraneetharan Chandrasekaran >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi List, >>> I want to practice and write kernel modules. But, I cant do that in my >>> host >>> system as it may crash. I need to create a simulation environment where >>> only >>> kernel, bash and utils (coreutils, modutils, etc) are available. I dont >>> want >>> to install a complete distro in VmWare or Virtualbox or whatever. I want >>> to >>> make it simple for the purpose. >>> >>> >> >> Have you considered using User Mode Linux or Qemu as the >> emulator/virtualization tool? And as the root filesystem, try creating >> one using Linux From Scratch or Gentoo stage 3. Or maybe slim distro >> like puppy linux... >> >> >> > Well, QEMU is a good choice . I used that as testbed for my embedded linux > development. > > -- > =========================================================== > Tonny Adhi Sabastian > Registered Linux User #345051 [Linux Counter International] > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- Regards, Paraneetharan C
