On 10/27/07, Mulyadi Santosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi.. > > Hello, > > I'm pretty new to kernel development and would like to setup a > ideal > > dev system for playing > > around. > I highly recommend Qemu. UML is nice, but you can consider itself as > another "architecture" i.e some low level functions are different from > the real i386/x86-64 ones. Qemu is a complete machine emulator, so you > are give more or less exact simulation and you are using exactly same > low level functions.
If you plan to buy a new machine for development, then, how about going for a processor with virtualization extenstions (Intel VT/AMD-V) ? They will enable you to run KVM/Xen/VMWare etc better. I'm not sure whether (k)qemu has support for hardware virtualization though... CMIIW. Best regards, Pranav ----------------------------------------------------------------- The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
