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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Development environment
From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
To: jeremy@thomersonfamily.com
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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:59:04 +0200
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On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 22:55 -0500, Jeremy Thomerson wrote:
> I am new to Alpine Linux and would like to experiment with it and
> possibly submit patches to improve the ACF modules, or add new ACF
> modules.  My main question is: what do you use for your development
> environment?  Do you have a physical box that you have Alpine loaded
> on that you use for development?  Do you use a VM?

My deskto pis an archlinux box with a vserver kernel. I run my build
environment in a vserver. (vservers are advanced chroots basicly)

Then i create development iso images that I boot in kvm/qemu. I used
vmware before for this.

> I installed Alpine on a VMWare VM tonight, and it runs on it fine.
> But on every reboot, I lose the configuration.  I added a USB
> controller to the VM, mounted the USB stick and did an lbu commit,
> which worked fine.  But it doesn't seem to auto-mount the USB stick on
> boot (/dev/sdb1).  I'm not sure if this is a timing issue - perhaps
> VMWare doesn't make the USB stick appear to the VM early enough. 

there was some issues with USB timings before, specially with USB-1
controllers. This should be fixed in recent alpine alpha releases.

Will the USB show up on the USB bus in the vm? might be they show up on
SCSI or IDE bus in the vm.

>  Maybe there's a simple command that once the machine is booted will
> let me mount the stick and then load the committed configuration from
> it.  Anyway, I'd be interested in seeing if you have any ideas for
> this setup and/or finding out what other Alpine devs use for
> development.

Other options: 
* use virtual floppy. For configs only 2.88 MB might be enough.
* install alpine to a virtual harddisk and boot of the harddisk.

I think I'd recommend the latter, even if its some manual work to get
alpine installed.

> Thanks for any pointers.
> 
> Jeremy Thomerson

-nc



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