On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 13:32 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > 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 if you wish to support it using the Virtual Desktop stuff that > is hitting the market..... that is a whole new level of fun!
Sadly, you're right. I had forgotten because recenrtly I've been using only QEMU, which uses plain files (besides its "proprietary" format cow2). Ok, I agree that the .iso file will have to stay around, which doesn't prevent livecd-iso-to-disk from being buried for good. liveinst might indeed be the right tool for all the usecases we care about: VMs, USB sticks and hard-drive installations. Later, we may also consider uploading a few pre-converted images for the convenience of users. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
