Willie Wong wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:48:04PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
I'm using qemu to run the firewall which in turn creates a self flash
memory image of itself. Maybe you are right though I should look into
the virtual machine as the framework from which I generate the flash
image.
I am actually quite interested in the details. What system do you run
on the guest system? OpenBSD? And can you give a brief description of
your network schematics?
it's not what you imagine. That will need to wait for me to spend time
with xen.
all I'm doing right now is running IPCop in qemu. then using ssh, copy
over configuration files, run the build flash image process, copy it
back and then iterate to the next configuration.
I'm trying to eliminate the /boot partition and the process of building
a bootable flash image is so fragile that I'm having trouble making all
the pieces lined up.
This is why I was hoping there was some way to create a multi-partition
disk out of a file and be able to read and write them in the same way
we do multi-partition hard drives.
I am about 30 pico seconds away from finding out if I can mount up the
disk image with qemu as a separate drive without spending the 60
seconds+ it takes to start up or shut down qemu.hopefully I can make the
build process work that way. It might be less pain although making grub
work...oh bother, said Pooh bear.
---eric
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