From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A83C6158041 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DA21E2A1D; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:51:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFA7FE2A13 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:51:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rdbaE-0001rV-Ll for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:51:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros? Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:51:38 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: c528de91-1097-4328-abc8-f242d27edeca X-Archives-Hash: ba2e7a9279c0382dd806b7d72ce9e8be On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards > 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. -- Grant