On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Douglas McClendon < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/27/2010 06:32 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> >> > - Can be easily booted on all Virtualisation solutions >> > (KVM/Zen/VMWare/Virtualbox/Fusion/Hyper-V etc) with no changes as >> they >> > all support booting off a CD iso image (your proposal would need the >> > VM drivers for at least storage to work properly for all of them) >> >> They also all support booting off a hard drive image, right? Which is >> what we'd do. >> >> >> Yes, but no. The support booting of their own proprietary images so >> you'd have to produce a separate image for each type of VM technology >> you wish to use and then ensure you have the drivers included in the >> kernel as well. In most cases you need non open tools to be able to >> produce these images as well. Hence the reason that the easiest way to >> support all VMs is to use a .iso image and let the user use liveinst to >> install to the VM technology of their choice. It gets even more complex >> > > Peter, It seems Bernie brought up the fact that despite zyx-liveinstaller > being prominently featured on the blueberry download page, that people like > him still aren't getting the message that it exists in blueberry, and > already provides the functionality you attribute to liveinst, which is not > in blueberry, but may be in future releases. > > Can you please do the community the favor of mentioning zyx-liveinstaller > as an existing, supported, featured, alternative the possible future use of > liveinst? > > Or if you have some technical criticism of zyx-liveinstaller that merits > its absense from your discussions, please explain it to me. > I have no experience of zyx-liveinstaller and hence the reason I haven't mentioned it. If I've not used it I won't venture an opinion. Nothing sinister. liveinst is part of anaconda and hence what is used by Fedora upstream. With SoaS-3 becoming an official Fedora spin we're required to include it there and hence my mention of it. Regards, Peter
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