Aaron VonderHaar wrote:
I did something along these lines on my own: I needed a way to carry my email archive with me, and I needed to be able to access it both on Windows and on OS-X. The solution I came up with was to create a tiny linux installation < http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo > and put it in a 500MB disk image that I store on one of my FAT32 thumbdrives. The installation is basically just busybox and the dovecot IMAP server. I can run it using Qemu on linux, windows and OS-X. Then I just fire up my favorite email client, and I can browse and save emails on the virtual IMAP appliance.
Ooh...now this is an interesting idea. I have long pondered how to carry my Linux distro of choice around with me on my thumbdrive and be able to boot it on any machine. I rarely actually make use of my thumbdrive because of this. Many machines cannot boot off of USB thumb drive yet. And even if it could I want not want to mess with someones BISO configs. But if I could run it in QEMU and let the Windows host OS worry about drivers etc. that would rock. I saw 4G USB flash drives at Best Buy over the weekend. Is there an image to do this or a howto for setting it up?
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