Re: [Qemu-devel] Building a Linux Distro

2006-09-06 Thread Joseph Miller
I have used it before, but it has been a while. Linux from scratch is so fast because you get to decide which packages to include during the build process. It helps you to make the basic system, then you are on your own. You will be able to boot to a login prompt, but you will not have X Wind

Re: [Qemu-devel] Building a Linux Distro

2006-09-05 Thread Joseph Miller
If you are looking for a system to boot quickly, LinuxFromScratch would be pretty fast, but takes a long time to build. -Joseph On Saturday 02 September 2006 4:43 pm, Michael Fisher wrote: > I want to know if the following idea is impossible, possible or just crazy. > > I want to create a di

Re: [Qemu-devel] Building a Linux Distro

2006-09-02 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Michael Fisher wrote: > I want to create a distro small Linux distro that will boot as a Qemu > guest as quickly as possible. The fastest would be to savevm a fully booted system, and call QEmu with -loadvm. Hth, Dscho ___

[Qemu-devel] Building a Linux Distro

2006-09-02 Thread Michael Fisher
I want to know if the following idea is impossible, possible or just crazy. I want to create a distro small Linux distro that will boot as a Qemu guest as quickly as possible. I realize that the time it takes to boot, open apps, etc is based on host OS, CPU, memory, etc. What I am wondering is wo