Create disposable virtual machines for Debian releases
Limitations
Because debvm is under rapid development, its final form cannot be predicted. On the one hand, in its current form, debvm is only a substitute for the common virtualization tools in limited circumstances. Because debvm currently works only with Debian and an ext4 filesystem, it is restricted to precisely those circumstances. Just as users might want a VM with a different hardware architecture, so they might sometimes want a VM with a different filesystem. Clearly, debvm's development has a way to go, even though developers and ordinary users can already find it useful. Yet, just as clearly, debvm is a project to watch. And who knows? Ports to non-Debian distributions may arrive any day now.
Infos
- diffoscope: https://diffoscope.org/
- debvm: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debvm
- Debian ports: https://www.debian.org/ports/
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