Re: RFP: virtme-ng -- Tool to build and run a kernel inside a virtualized snapshot of your live system
On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 09:51:42AM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 09:30:54AM +0200, Héctor Orón Martínez wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > virtme already exists in Debian, what would be the benefit of virtme-ng
> > over virtme?
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/virtme
> >
> > Regards
>
> The original virtme project is not maintained anymore
> (https://github.com/amluto/virtme), so we decided to fork the project
> and continue the development / bug fixing in virtme-ng
> (https://github.com/arighi/virtme-ng).
>
> Some people are already using and contributing to virtme-ng and there
> are plans to package it in SuSE.
>
> Honestly I don't know what would be the right procedure to "obsolete"
> the old virtme package and replace it virtme-ng (if possible), but
> ideally it would be nice to do something like this. Any guidance or
> suggestion is welcome.
>
> Once we have a package in Debian I can take care of providing a package
> also in Ubuntu.
Moreover, it's worth mentioning that virtme-ng doesn't break the
compatibility with virtme, meaning that all the commands and options
that were available in virtme are also available in virtme-ng, so users
can transition to virtme-ng without breaking their workflow.
-Andrea
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