Hello, On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:11 AM, pradeep singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Stephen Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'm interested to hear about your development environments. Do you use a > > seperate PC to your development one for to use for testing your kernel? > Or > > is the work you are doing high enough level to be stable enough to run > your > > new kernel on your development machine? My main interest is turnaround > time > > - ie. from compiling my kernel to seeing your debug out over serial or in > a > > logfile - to minimise this. > > Well it depends on what your goal is. > If you want to run new kernels and no low level real hardware > interaction, you can always run your test kernels in a VM. > As far as serial logging is concerned I use VMware Workstation 6.5.1. > It is certainly fun to control a guest kernel from a Linux host. > Also I avoid compiling kernels in guest OS. Simply compile on host and > then scp/copy the kernel+initrd+/lib/modules/$(kernel_version) to the > guest os, taking care of the links. > > But if you have a PC to spare ... bring it on! :-). > Try to keep your dev and test machine separate if not physically > atleast logically in a VM. You ll save a lot of time. > Having a seperate PC for only testing purpose is really not going to benefit much in term of time as well money ... When we have a solution like xen, kvm as well vmware, use it but as said by pradeep it depends on for what you want to do ... i use xen to test my kernel changes ... > HTH > > Cu, > --Pradeep > > > Thanks, > > Stephen > > > > > > -- > Pradeep > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- Thanks & Regards, Ajit Subhash Mote
