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A VM is absolutely the best choice for experimenting with operating systems. Dual booting is rather inconvenient and can be risky, if you are not careful while
by sigjuice 10y ago
A VM is absolutely the best choice for experimenting with operating systems. Dual booting is rather inconvenient and can be risky, if you are not careful while setting it up. My guess would be that OP does not have a free or convenient way to do VMs.
I use VMWare Fusion, KVM and plain Qemu (especially for non-Intel systems). All three allow convenient kernel debugging using gdb built with --enable-targets=all. Also, Fusion and KVM support nested virtualization, if you plan to tinker with hypervisors.
- gigatexal 10y agoYou'll need chips with the ability to do nested vms. I think it's a fairly new feature for the Xeon class intel chips.