Hi everyone,
I've got a VMware image of a Linux distro used for development tasks. I use VMPlayer to boot this distro and then I work in it.
This distro is virtualised as the guest and host libc/toolchain/etc are of different versions (and also incompatible). But it's a pain to keep all the windows confined to the VMPlayer window.
So, I was thinking of:
- copying out the files from the vmplayer distro image to a specific directory on the host filesystem - chrooting to this directory - maybe setting up LD_LIBRARY_PATH or something similar (though if I'm chrooting, I doubt this step will be needed)
so as to:
- take advantage of SMP when running make - split out windows from 'pseudo-guest' distro across two screens - not have to faff about with vmplayer and the slight performance penalty - not have to worry about removable devices and vmware's handling of them.
At some point, I will try this out. But has anyone ever tried this, and did you run into any particular problems? Anything nasty/tricky to be careful of?
I don't specifically need the guest OSs kernel to be booting, which is why this is possibly a nice plan.
Thank you Srdjan