Well, a paravirtualized environment is going ot be a bit different than the 4521.
An full on emulated one like bochs or qemu is going to be able to get a lot closer to what a 45xx system is like. back when I had 4521's I would occasionally forget and build something important for pentium or i686 which would then fail when I moved it over, these days I have only 5501s, so the vmware x86 32bit non-smp environment is close enough that I never have that problem. Ralph Green wrote: > Howdy, > I am presently trying to build an image for a Soekris 4521 and this > seems like an interesting approach you have here. I have the VirtualBox > VM Manager in use and KVM installed on a test machine, but not tested > yet. Has anyone used a similar approach with either of these > hypervisors? If so, do you have any advice? > The idea of being able to do test builds and run in a hypervisor seems > like it would be a lot more productive than the way I test now. > Good day, > Ralph > > On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 09:19 -0700, Matthew Kaufman wrote: >> I've had great success with setting up a VMWare system with a virtual >> IDE drive the same size (or slightly smaller than) the CF cards I have >> in stock, configuring everything there, and then using 'dd' to copy the >> whole thing to a CF card via a USB-CF adapter. Just need to make sure >> the OS you set up will run on a 586, and you can make as many copies as >> you want. >> >> On Linux, there's a few things you need to do after it first boots on >> the new system, like remove the persistent ethernet mappings so they >> re-build, but otherwise it make for a very clean way to build up >> multiple similar/identical systems. >> >> Matthew > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
