I'm working on kernel development on a Mac with Parallels (3036). My setup right now just has one Ubuntu virtual machine on which I do both my development and testing. However building, restarting, running, restarting, and debugging is an amazing hassle. So I'm trying to get two virtual machines going that can share the kernel image without having to reboot. The way I figured I'd do this is to have two virtual machines that would have a floppy disk that could go back and forth between the virtual machines. However, Ubuntu doesn't have a /dev/fd0 or any other special file that I could find that could possibly be the floppy (the Device manager mentions nothing about a floppy either). So really, I'd be satisfied with an answer to either of these questions: a) How can I get Ubuntu to recognize the floppy drive? or b) Is there a better way to do this? Anything that'd be faster that rebooting. It's excruciating. Thanks all.
You can add multiple hard disks to a virtual machine in the VM options. You can set up one to be /boot and try it that way. You should be able to unmount /boot on one, disconnect it, and then connect and mount in the other VM. I haven't tried this though, so perhaps you should wait for more feedback before attempting it.
Yeah. I'd thought of that. The problem is you can't disconnect something registered as a hard drive, and if it's connected to one machine, other machines can't use it. However, this trick does work with a floppy disk, but again, I can't get that working in Ubuntu.
