Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:50:52 -0600 | From | "Christopher Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] make it easy to test new kernels |
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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...
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