Re: [blfs-support] running lfs as guestOS on virtulisation setup

2014-03-09 Thread me
On Friday 07 March 2014 12:39:31 Pierre Labastie wrote: For (ii), you can: - copy an existing LFS/BLFS to a virtual disk (using for example qemu-img), or - use qemu-nbd to see a virtual disk as a system disk, and build to that disk (you need the nbd kernel module, and the nbd-client

Re: [blfs-support] running lfs as guestOS on virtulisation setup

2014-03-08 Thread lux-integ
On Friday 07 March 2014 12:39:31 Pierre Labastie wrote: For (ii), you can: - copy an existing LFS/BLFS to a virtual disk (using for example qemu-img), or - use qemu-nbd to see a virtual disk as a system disk, and build to that disk (you need the nbd kernel module, and the nbd-client

Re: [blfs-support] running lfs as guestOS on virtulisation setup

2014-03-08 Thread lux-integ
On Friday 07 March 2014 17:07:12 Bruce Dubbs wrote: You could probably boot to a live iso and copy files from a LFS/BLFS partition to the virtual disk. Note that the kernel drivers will be different, so you would need to rebuild the kernel. Other files such as ifconfig.eth0, hostname, etc

Re: [blfs-support] running lfs as guestOS on virtulisation setup

2014-03-08 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 07/03/2014 16:42, lux-integ a écrit : I did not know about qemu-img nor qemu-nbd (Indicently do you know of any documentation on these utilities I can read ? ) The html documentation shipped with qemu,and the man page for qemu-img are good for qemu-img (I think you need qemu-img convert).

Re: [blfs-support] running lfs as guestOS on virtulisation setup

2014-03-07 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 07/03/2014 10:11, lux-integ a écrit : Greetings, I have recently been dabbling with 2 virtualiisation programs on linux. These are qemu/kvm ( http://www.qemu.org http://www.linux-kvm.org ) and VirtualBox ( http://www.virtualbox.org ). Both install as host on a typical LFS setup I use (

Re: [blfs-support] running lfs as guestOS on virtulisation setup

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lux-integ wrote: Greetings, I have recently been dabbling with 2 virtualiisation programs on linux. These are qemu/kvm ( http://www.qemu.org http://www.linux-kvm.org ) and VirtualBox ( http://www.virtualbox.org ). Both install as host on a typical LFS setup I use ( cpu =amd64, pure 64bit