The easiest thing is just to follow said guide in a VM. Setting up a full system VM is the simpler path since it's such a common tasks that all the VM tooling i

The easiest thing is just to follow said guide in a VM. Setting up a full system VM is the simpler path since it's such a common tasks that all the VM tooling is already built around the idea you'll want to do that. If you absolutely must compile outside the VM for whatever reason you can just transfer the resulting files over. It's a bit of a dead end if your kernel issue has to do with your hardware of course. I once had to patch a bug about specific NVMe drives I was working with so there was no choice but to do that with the actual hardware.