Hello, virtme already exists in Debian, what would be the benefit of virtme-ng over virtme?
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/virtme Regards El lun, 8 may 2023, 17:48, Emmanuel Arias <eam...@yaerobi.com> escribió: > Control: retitle -1 ITP: virtme-ng -- Tool to build and run a kernel > inside a virtualized snapshot of your live system > Control: owner -1 eam...@yaerobi.com > > Hi, > > I'm interested to work in this package. I'm going to package it. > > Thanks! > > Cheers, > eamanu > > > > On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 10:39 AM Andrea Righi <andrea.ri...@canonical.com> > wrote: > >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Andrea Righi <andrea.ri...@canonical.com> >> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org >> Control: affects -1 ITP >> >> * Package name : virtme-ng >> Version : 1.2 >> Upstream Author : Andrea Righi <andrea.ri...@canonical.com> >> * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/arighi/virtme-ng >> * License : GPL-2 >> Programming Lang: Python >> Description : Tool to build and run a kernel inside a virtualized >> snapshot of your live system >> >> virtme-ng is a tool that allows to easily and quickly recompile and test >> a Linux kernel, starting from the source code. >> >> It allows to recompile the kernel in few minutes (rather than hours), >> then the kernel is automatically started in a virtualized environment >> that is an exact copy-on-write copy of your live system, which means >> that any changes made to the virtualized environment do not affect the >> host system. >> >> In order to do this a minimal config is produced (with the bare minimum >> support to test the kernel inside qemu), then the selected kernel is >> automatically built and started inside qemu, using the filesystem of the >> host as a copy-on-write snapshot. >> >> This means that you can safely destroy the entire filesystem, crash the >> kernel, etc. without affecting the host. >> >> Kernels produced with virtme-ng are lacking lots of features, in order >> to reduce the build time to the minimum and still provide you a usable >> kernel capable of running your tests and experiments. >> >> virtme-ng is based on virtme, written by Andy Lutomirski >> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/virtme/virtme.git). >> >>
