Re: [Axiom-developer] Live CDs - with qemu

[Frederic Lehobey]

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