RFP: kernelcraft -- Tool to build and run a kernel inside a virtualized snapshot of your live system
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
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* Package name : kernelcraft
Version : 2.0
Upstream Author : Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
* URL : https://salsa.debian.org/arighi/kernelcraft
* License : GPL-2
Programming Lang: Python
Description : Tool to build and run a kernel inside a virtualized snapshot of your live system
KernelCraft 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 KernelCraft 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.
KernelCraft is based on virtme, written by Andy Lutomirski
(https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/virtme/virtme.git).
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