Xen in rawhide

[Jos Vos]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Mike Hearn wrote:
> 
> > Useful definitely, but if this is going to become some sort of 
> > semi-formal recommendation then I'd be pretty disappointed. You 
> > shouldn't need a VM and lots of Fedora installs to produce RPMs!
> 
> A chroot is enough for building.  As Rex Dieter pointed out,
> you may need more than a chroot for testing though, especially
> when testing daemons that listen on network ports, or when
> testing untrusted programs.

Yes, a chroot *should* be enough, although I'm personally to
paranoid to trust that.  But even when chroot'ing, you have an OS
install for every "target environment".

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