Kernel development virtualization options

[Laurence Rochfort]

Hi all,

Thus far, I've been testing my kernel patches in a KVM vm with a full
distro installation, but it's pretty slow and cumbersome.

Valerie Aurora has a blog post on using User-mode Linux, and others
mention QEMU with an overlay filesystem and BusyBox.

What do people recommend for quick iterative development, with good
GDB integration?

Cheers,
Laurence.

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 5:39 PM Laurence Rochfort <

Post by Laurence Rochfort
Hi all,
Thus far, I've been testing my kernel patches in a KVM vm with a full
distro installation, but it's pretty slow and cumbersome.
Hi

Hmmm, weird, assuming your CPU had VT-x/AMD-V enabled, KVM should utilize
it and ran pretty fast. Could you check whether KVM use VT-x/AMD-V first?

Post by Laurence Rochfort
Valerie Aurora has a blog post on using User-mode Linux, and others
mention QEMU with an overlay filesystem and BusyBox.
What do people recommend for quick iterative development, with good
GDB integration?
Cheers,
Laurence.
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