On 05/24/2015 01:37 PM, King Beowulf wrote: > On 05/23/2015 09:41 AM, John Yost wrote: > >> I guess I am pretty old school. >> I am just now switching over to using VM's for Linux >> For all these years with Slackware (since about'98) I lived on >> separate partitions for build, current, rescue, and production. Of >> course this method requires a reboot to switch between worlds. > > Same here: for ages I just had a number of partitions. However, this > started to get tedious when I took on more SBo scripts. A VM makes > testing new stuff in a "clean room" easier. I used to use VirtualBox, > then Oracle grabbed them, so when QEMU was up for grabs I volunteered. > >> So I am >> now experimenting with Qemu. From your replies it seems I will need to >> study the -drive switch and also look into 'copy on write'. >> My biggest problem so far is passing info back and forth. I have been >> using a usb stick but I see there are many other methods. >> John >> > > I've attached my qemu script for slackware-current, etc. It will give > you some ideas. The virtio subsystem is very high performance. The VMs > are isolated from my network. Also, once the VM is running, the host > directory mounts with this fstab entry: > > data /mnt/hd 9p trans=virtio 0 0 > > A host share, as well as the backing image I use makes a clean reset easy! > > Enjoy, > Ed > > > > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > Another BIG thank you Ed I have 9p working now with the generic kernel. Having the same problem as you on huge. Thank You John
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