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  • RFP: kernelcraft -- Tool to build and run a kernel inside a virtualized

    From Andrea Righi@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 27 18:20:01 2023
    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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  • From Andrea Righi@21:1/5 to Andrea Righi on Fri Apr 28 11:40:01 2023
    On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 05:56:41PM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
    Package: wnpp
    Severity: wishlist
    Owner: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
    X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
    Control: affects -1 ITP

    * 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).

    Please ignore this, we are currectly renaming the project to virtme-ng
    to avoid a potential naming conflict with another project.

    I will send another RFP when the renaming will be completed.

    Sorry for the noise,
    -Andrea

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