On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:11:32AM -0500, Akshat Aranya wrote:

If you're doing kernel development, and fall in the 99.9% category of 
people who crash and burn, it would be wise to use VMWare 
(www.vmware.com).  It saves a lot of trouble.  It lets you mess around 
with the kernel as much as you want.  You can save snapshots of the 
state of the virtual machine before you run the new code, and just 
revert to the snapshot if you crash.  However, the snapshot facility is 
really useful only if you're writing kernel modules and not modifying 
kernel proper.

or even better use QEMU or bochs, which are free
and in some aspects better suited for testing ...

best,
Herbert

-Akshat Aranya

Siddhartha Jain wrote:

quoted

Apart from this, how do I keep my filesystems sane between kernel crashes? 
I
mean once I start playing with the kernel (that too with stuff like
sys_open, sys_write), there will be several crashes.

There has to be a way other than re-installing the OS over and over again.
Right?

TIA,

Siddhartha

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