Control: retitle -1 ITP: virtme-ng -- Tool to build and run a kernel inside a virtualized snapshot of your live system Control: owner -1 eam...@yaerobi.com
Hi, I'm interested to work in this package. I'm going to package it. Thanks! Cheers, eamanu On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 10:39 AM Andrea Righi <andrea.ri...@canonical.com> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Andrea Righi <andrea.ri...@canonical.com> > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Control: affects -1 ITP > > * Package name : virtme-ng > Version : 1.2 > Upstream Author : Andrea Righi <andrea.ri...@canonical.com> > * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/arighi/virtme-ng > * License : GPL-2 > Programming Lang: Python > Description : Tool to build and run a kernel inside a virtualized > snapshot of your live system > > virtme-ng is a tool that allows to easily and quickly recompile and test > a Linux kernel, starting from the source code. > > It allows to recompile the kernel in few minutes (rather than hours), > then the kernel is automatically started in a virtualized environment > that is an exact copy-on-write copy of your live system, which means > that any changes made to the virtualized environment do not affect the > host system. > > In order to do this a minimal config is produced (with the bare minimum > support to test the kernel inside qemu), then the selected kernel is > automatically built and started inside qemu, using the filesystem of the > host as a copy-on-write snapshot. > > This means that you can safely destroy the entire filesystem, crash the > kernel, etc. without affecting the host. > > Kernels produced with virtme-ng are lacking lots of features, in order > to reduce the build time to the minimum and still provide you a usable > kernel capable of running your tests and experiments. > > virtme-ng is based on virtme, written by Andy Lutomirski > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/virtme/virtme.git). > >
