On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Felipe Lessa
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 01:39:49AM -0400, Sean Bartell wrote:
I don't know about Haskell, but in C you could set up a chroot (your distro might have docs).
chroot'ing is a nice solution in that it works almost for free compared to virtualization, including being able to test graphical apps (OpenGL, anyone?) with the very same hardware.
There seems to be some support for OpenGL in VirtualBox these days[1]. I have no experience with it myself though.
It may, however, be not so very straightforward to get started. Gentoo has a nice guide somewhere about setting up a (Gentoo) chroot. After the first install, however, maintaining is a breeze.
The big limitation with a chroot is of course that the surrounding system puts limits on what you can run in the chroot, though for many uses that doesn't really matter. /M [1]: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjkzOA -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe