Free Linux/Ubuntu VMs for Kernal Development?

[Praveen Kumar]

Hello,

A bit confused with "free Linux/Ubuntu VMs".
Do you mean you looking for VM image ( to directly run  your tests )
or an emulator to create VMs locally and play around.

For the first, I have not tried with. Probably vmware images can be found at :
http://www.osboxes.org/vmware-images/

But, if you are looking for emulators, I would say Xen and Virtualbox.
I use them for most of my development for linux kernel related work
items. To start with, I would suggest you to start with Virtualbox.
Its easy to begin w.r.t. configuration, installation and other items.

Link : https://www.virtualbox.org/

Regards,

~Praveen.

On 14 March 2017 at 15:45, François <fser at code-libre.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:18:33PM +0800, Freeman Zhang wrote:
>> On 3/14/17 12:04 PM, Balaji Barmavat wrote:
>> > Anybody's has any VM's links to download, for practice kernel
>> programming?
>>
>> Well, I am using QEMU system emulator, for it's easier to connect to GDB
>> debugging and itself handles bootloader thing. You can set all things up
>> by one line parameters, really tidy.
>>
>> The disadvantage is that I've been told system running in QEMU is slow,
>> but for kernel programming that wouldn't be the problem, will it?
>>
>> What about others?
>
> Depending on what you're working on, you can also use User Mode Linux
> (UML) [1] which produces a elf, that you can run easily on top of your
> existing linux distro.
> Basically, you have to choose the "um" arch when compiling your kernel.
>
> [1] http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html
>
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