Hi, On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Bill Page wrote: > On June 16, 2006 10:42 AM you wrote: > > > > Out of curosity, has anyone ever tried to run a LiveCD using a > > virtual machine? Bochs I suppose would be too slow, but maybe > > Xen one of the other newer ones? > > > > It would be sort of cool to be able to "boot" a livecd without > > restarting your own computer, although I suppose it makes > > more sense to just create an image in that case. > > > > ??? I think it might be worth your while to read and understand > > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/DoyenVirtualMachinePackage > > That is exactly what Alfredo has done using VMware. VMware is not > open source but it is free. > > I don't see any reason why one could not do something very similar > with Xen.
For those insterested in trying with (free software) qemu, the following commands worked for me (Debian sarge): $ wget -c http://alfredo.axiom-developer.org/doyen/doyen-42206.iso $ qemu -user-net -m 256 -cdrom doyen-42206.iso -boot d I take the opportunity to point at new Debian based live-CD mastering scripts: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive Best regards, Frédéric Lehobey _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
