Max Nikulin (HE12025-07-26): > You may have testing or unstable as a virtual machine. Of course, it means > using a search engine rather actively and perhaps some failures before you > will manage to setup it.
Why a VM? A chroot is quite enough to run a simple program from another Linux, with only the cost of loading other versions of shared libraries, saving the cost for the kernel and supporting daemons in the VM. It is also more convenient to interact with the files on the host system. And it is very easy to set up with Debian using debootstrap. Unpacking the packages in /usr/local and playing with symlinks and LD_LIBRARY_PATH is an even more convenient solution than a chroot, but it requires more know-how. Regards, -- Nicolas George
