Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755598AbZF0HV7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:21:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752763AbZF0HVu (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:21:50 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:19067 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752497AbZF0HVu (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:21:50 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OocQBIz+eOsX6FwLWiwUF32arPFz/rUU1VxIohIeCOliYQBWos89Ok9r3dFTzmIt2T IchtNaq5GZJkzUq4XWSzB0WkOOxTJnkY7g545BG+yPVnX9VYMk+MUOJPhNx/5pp6sMf/ 3+pDX5AD1hPNrRSJLkmkUSWOcCJrLV94vx1LE= Message-ID: <4A45C707.5010503@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:15:19 +0300 From: Aioanei Rares User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Dolan CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel testing in a VM good idea? References: <20090627185749.065bcab4@linux-uvcl.site> In-Reply-To: <20090627185749.065bcab4@linux-uvcl.site> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 561 Lines: 12 James Dolan wrote: > Are there any disadvantages to testing/developing a kernel in a VM ? (i > luck the availability of hardware) > I personally prefer to find a spare machine to do testing/compiling rather than a VM. Maybe the most experimented users of this list will give you technically-oriented reasons. -- 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/