Kernel test

[David Lishchyshen]

Thanks, but I found issue in your guide :)

We need mount drive as VirtIO, so we need to specify `root=/dev/vda` and 
`-drive file=$HOME/linux/qemu/image/bookworm.img,format=raw,if=virtio` 
without it I had kernel panic

Thanks,

David

On 2/28/26 11:53, Siddh Raman Pant wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:42:25 +0530, David Lishchyshen wrote:
>> How you recommend to test kernel? I use Arch and found 3 ways:
>> * Native run, replace existing kernel
>> * Qemu with full Linux distribution, install Ubuntu in qemu and
>> replace kernel in it
>> * Minimal Qemu, need to create initramfs with busybox and connect to
>> Qemu with your kernel, but I even couldn't see printk log from e1000e
>> in this way
> Option 3 is the best way since you can't keep rebooting your machine
> when you reproduce crashes.
>
> I did a writeup about it, it might help you. Take a look here:
> https://bodha.siddh.me/posts/2023/10/14/kernel_qemu_setup/
>
> Thanks,
> Siddh
>