From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 27 02:28:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCC316A400 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 02:28:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B591713C44B for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 02:28:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) id l4R2RrUS086827; Sat, 26 May 2007 21:27:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 21:27:53 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Daniel Molina Wegener Message-ID: <20070527022753.GL98411@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200705262114.20350.dmw@unete.cl> <4658DDEA.4090204@u.washington.edu> <200705262154.11782.dmw@unete.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200705262154.11782.dmw@unete.cl> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: working on -CURRENT from -STABLE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 02:28:22 -0000 In the last episode (May 26), Daniel Molina Wegener said: > On Saturday 26 May 2007 21:24:58 Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > How can I install -CURRENT from -STABLE and work on > > > -CURRENT code from -STABLE? > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Simply put that's not possible to set it up and work on CURRENT > > -code, if you need to test CURRENT, because the > > userland and kernel get installed in the same spots. > > > > It's much wiser to just install CURRENT and STABLE on separate > > partitions / disks and work from there, if you don't have access to > > virtual machines. > > Thanks, now... what can I use as virtual machine?. I mean, I > need something with write access to the virtual machine filesystem, > to work on the -CURRENT code from -STABLE, I think that I will be > losing time compiling editors (emacs) and user environments two times > (Xorg, KDE, etc.). qemu works for me; you can NFS-mount host to guest and vice versa to manipulate files. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com