Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932202AbWAYWu7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:50:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932204AbWAYWu7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:50:59 -0500 Received: from zcars04e.nortel.com ([47.129.242.56]:52909 "EHLO zcars04e.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932202AbWAYWu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:50:58 -0500 Message-ID: <43D800CC.4090901@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:50:52 -0600 From: "Christopher Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jerome lacoste CC: lkml Subject: Re: [RFC] make it easy to test new kernels References: <5a2cf1f60601251430k5823e7dald12c9b5f8bc297be@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5a2cf1f60601251430k5823e7dald12c9b5f8bc297be@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jan 2006 22:50:54.0215 (UTC) FILETIME=[CC286970:01C62201] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 19 jerome lacoste wrote: > Now, will all these talks about virtualization, I wonder if it will be > possible one day to just download a new virtualized test OS and test > it without rebooting the main one. I could always allocate 10 G to a > test system on my disk. As long as I don't have to reboot. A large portion of kernel issues are found in the hardware support, which is difficult to test in a virtualized environment. However, something like this could ensure that the APIs handle random garbage, that POSIX works properly, etc... Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/