Virtual machine query

Virtual machine query

[manish honap]

During Kernel development what type of set-up do developers normally use ?
e.g. Machine configuration, virtualization environment etc.
or whether they use physical machines ?

Cheers, Manish

Virtual machine query

[Alexandru Juncu]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:13 PM, manish honap
<manish_honap_vit@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> During Kernel development what type of set-up do developers normally use ?
> e.g. Machine configuration, virtualization environment etc.
> or whether they use physical machines ?
>
> Cheers, Manish


I would recommend a solution like VMware Workstation or VirtualBox
because it's the closest thing to a real machine as possible. And the
big plus of these solutions are the Snapshots that are really useful
when you risk having kernel panics and have to restart a lot.

Just my $0.02

-- 
Alexandru Juncu

ROSEdu

Virtual machine query

[Dave Hylands]

Hi Manish,

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:13 AM, manish honap
<manish_honap_vit@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> During Kernel development what type of set-up do developers normally use ?
> e.g. Machine configuration, virtualization environment etc.
> or whether they use physical machines ?

I work on ARM based systems so I cross-compile and use a physical board.

I tend to develop drivers as modules, so that if it crashes , I can
reboot the board and things stay sane.

When I'm working on stuff that isn't a driver and can't be in a
module, then u-boot (the bootloader) is my friend.

-- 
Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
http://www.davehylands.com

Virtual machine query

[anish singh]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Dave Hylands <dhylands@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Manish,
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:13 AM, manish honap
> <manish_honap_vit@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>> During Kernel development what type of set-up do developers normally use ?
>> e.g. Machine configuration, virtualization environment etc.
>> or whether they use physical machines ?
>
> I work on ARM based systems so I cross-compile and use a physical board.
If i may ask which ARM based board you prefer?
>
> I tend to develop drivers as modules, so that if it crashes , I can
> reboot the board and things stay sane.
>
> When I'm working on stuff that isn't a driver and can't be in a
> module, then u-boot (the bootloader) is my friend.
>
> --
> Dave Hylands
> Shuswap, BC, Canada
> http://www.davehylands.com
>
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