Free Linux/Ubuntu VMs for Kernal Development?

[Balaji Barmavat]

Thanks All for your inputs, all are useful

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Praveen Kumar <praveenkumar1511 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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