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Date:      Sat, 26 May 2007 21:27:53 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Daniel Molina Wegener <dmw@unete.cl>
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: working on -CURRENT from -STABLE?
Message-ID:  <20070527022753.GL98411@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200705262154.11782.dmw@unete.cl>
References:  <200705262114.20350.dmw@unete.cl> <4658DDEA.4090204@u.washington.edu> <200705262154.11782.dmw@unete.cl>

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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



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