On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Castro castro@indigoblues.co.uk wrote:

Darrell Anderson wrote:

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Can newer releases of a distro be run in a chroot from within an older release? What problems will occur?

I'm running Slackware 12.2, mostly because that was the last release supporting KDE 3.5.10. I run my Trinity builds in a chroot.

I would like to start Trinity build testing for the most recent Slackware release.

I can run newer releases in a virtual machine, but I find virtual machines much slower than the chroot.

Thanks.

Darrell

When I boot my VM, I leave it sitting at console login I then sftp into my VM using konqueror for file management and ssh with konsole for building etc. It is much faster.

I then login and startx when I am ready to test. ;-)

castro (David Baylis)

It is actually slower, even if not by much. If you have a fast CPU supporting virtualization and a lot of RAM, you can have it run close enough to your real computer that you don't notice much of a difference.

Provided you have a minimal set of processes running on both your real hardware and your chroot, the chroot will be faster for building than keeping minimal processes running on your real hardware and the VM. The only advantage to a VM for building packages is to test them after they've been built.

Needless to say, there are other uses for a VM outside building packages.