On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > Yes, Virtualisation is one of the major components of my job so I run into the pain of disk conversions every day! Even between different versions of product from the same vendor! And the supposed interchange format is a complete waste of time :-( Peter
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