Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:52 PM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards <
grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a dozen different
> >> distros on a single disk and buy a pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives.
> >>
> >
> > Given performance does drop a bit and there can be issues with
allocating
> > hardware, why not use Virtualbox which allows you to run both your base
> > distro and then as many of the others as your hardware can handle as
VMs?
>
> The machine is used for testing PCI and PCI-express boards and their
> drivers. I don't really trust PCI passthrough (especially when it
> comes to interrupt handling) enought to do such testing in a
> VM. IFAICT, it's very rare for customers to use VMs. If customers do
> start to use VMs, then we'll have to test with VMs also.
>
In that specific use case I completely agree.

The only other idea I had was to install <new distro> to a different
disk and then use something like Clonezilla to move it to the partition
you want it in on your system.

While I suspect you were being sarcastic I do not think any solution
that involves a 'pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives' will be satisfying.

Wishing you luck,
Mark

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