From: fser@code-libre.org (François)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Free Linux/Ubuntu VMs for Kernal Development?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:15:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170314101501.GB17124@sith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67cf1b72-57ff-717f-bc39-fc2a52693534@gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-14 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-14 4:04 Free Linux/Ubuntu VMs for Kernal Development? Balaji Barmavat
2017-03-14 4:18 ` Freeman Zhang
2017-03-14 10:15 ` François [this message]
2017-03-16 4:22 ` Praveen Kumar
2017-03-16 20:41 ` Balaji Barmavat
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