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Re: debian-installer: VMWare as a sandbox?



on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:18:21AM -0500, ronin2@bellatlantic.net (ronin2@bellatlantic.net) wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 04:38:32 -0800
> Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody know if VMware is a reliable testbed for such activites?
> 
> Apparently it's being used for that purpose:
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/screenshots/2003-02-16/slang/00-all.html

FWIW, UML (user-mode linux) should also be useful here.  And it's
available as a Debian package ;-)

Both VMWare and UML are restricted to specific hardware sets though.  So
while they're useful for developing startup scripts, there are
limitations to how much testing can be done in the sandbox.

Peace.

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