On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 19:39, Priscila Gutierres <prgutier(a)redhat.com> wrote:
virtme-ng makes testing a new kernel and developing new modules A LOT easier.
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 10:27 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 11:20:22AM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > virtme orphan 4 weeks ago
>
> I have no special knowledge of this package, but I did read the
> article below a few weeks ago about virtme-ng. In particular
> virtme-ng uses virtiofs (instead of 9p) which is a more modern way to
> export filesystems into VMs. We (the virt team) have for a very very
> long time recommended people steer clear of 9p, for security,
> performance and maintainability reasons.
>
>
https://lwn.net/Articles/951313/
FWIW, I wanted to try out virtme-ng, so I packaged it and submitted for review:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2255805
If anyone is interested in having it in Fedora, please consider taking
the review. Co-maintainer offers are also welcome :)