working on -CURRENT from -STABLE?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 26), Daniel Molina Wegener said:
> On Saturday 26 May 2007 21:24:58 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > Daniel Molina Wegener wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >    How can I install -CURRENT from -STABLE and work on
> > > -CURRENT code from -STABLE?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> >
> > Simply put that's not possible to set it up and work on CURRENT
> > -code, if you need to test CURRENT, because the
> > userland and kernel get installed in the same spots.
> >
> > It's much wiser to just install CURRENT and STABLE on separate
> > partitions / disks and work from there, if you don't have access to
> > virtual machines.
> 
>   Thanks, now... what can I use as virtual machine?. I mean, I 
> need something with write access to the virtual machine filesystem,
> to work on the -CURRENT code from -STABLE, I think that I will be
> losing time compiling editors (emacs) and user environments two times
> (Xorg, KDE, etc.).

qemu works for me; you can NFS-mount host to guest and vice versa to
manipulate files.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com