Re: virtual machines

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> * Rakotomandimby Mihamina <mihamina.rakotomandimby@etu.univ-orleans.fr> [051218 01:25]:
>
> > I have a test machine, on wich I use to package and test packages.
> > I package both for Fedora and for Debian.
> > For the moment, I use multiboot.
> >
> > But I am tired to reboot each time I want to switch distribution.
> > I intend to buy some amount of RAM and then try to use virtual
> > machine. [..]
>
> Why so complicated?  As long as you don't package Hardware-Drivers /
> Kernel-Packages, you should be able to just work fine with chroot.
>
> Mount the other operating systems partition somewhere, and just run
> "chroot /mnt/my/other/linux/system", and voila!  There you are.
>
> You might want to take a look at dchroot, to use it with a bit more
> comfort.
>
> No need to reboot, no need for virtual machines.

I wanted to backup mysql on one partition and use that backup on another 
partition, the running one.

So I chrooted into the partition whose mysql I wanted to backup, but 
mysql complained that it could not do it because of the port not being 
functional.

That was the end of the chroot experiment and I rebooted instead.

H