Kernel development virtualization options

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 5:39 PM Laurence Rochfort <
laurence.rochfort at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?



> 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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