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Kind of amusing that the article explains how to set up the development environment using VirtualBox. I doubt many Linux kernel hackers use or want to use Virtu
by catern 11y ago
Kind of amusing that the article explains how to set up the development environment using VirtualBox. I doubt many Linux kernel hackers use or want to use VirtualBox. At least, many ones working with mainline.
- trengrj 11y agoI'd imagine a lot of kernel developers use virtualisation during development so that they can still boot their machine (though they probably aren't running Macs).
- buserror 11y agoNot ARM developers; my workstation reboots every few months, my ARM boards every few minutes :-) That is, unless you have a qemu port for the SoC in question. That's also why my host /sbin/reboot is "echo Wrong terminal, you idiot"
- trengrj 11y agoHaha I generally try to colour my terminals differently to get around this same issue.
- TD-Linux 11y agoI think he was referring to VirtualBox in particular - its kernel modules are endless sources of problems. KVM has its modules in mainline, so it's a more popular choice for kernel development.