http://www.pendrivelinux.com/portable-qemu-persistent-ubuntu-linux/
^Old news? =/ -- There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who do not. --- David McClellan On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Forest Bond <[email protected]>wrote: > Hiya, > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 04:00:22PM -0400, Pete Clark wrote: > > Why not just use VirtualBox instead, foregoing the unnecessary overhead > of > > emulating the hardware? Virtualization is /much/ more efficient and more > > appropriate if you aren't running on a different architecture (ie. > running an > > x86 OS on PPC hardware). > > I use qemu mostly because it's simple and it's what I've used for a long > time. > I don't use it to run applications for my use, though. I mostly use it to > test > disk images. qemu emulates the full machine, including a BIOS, so I can > test > that the boot sector, the boot loader, and the OS are all configured > correctly. > > Can VirtualBox boot real disk images, or does it use some special image > format? > > Thanks, > Forest > -- > Forest Bond > http://www.alittletooquiet.net > http://www.pytagsfs.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFKKGnTRO4fQQdv5AwRArNJAKDHdnB3aAJIk8O0PyQgqWVH7DKX9wCcCiAM > ykmfrfZgJfh0GZ3L+E1j0Ng= > =br1o > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
