another HelloWorld type of article might interest you http://www.codeproject.com/KB/tips/boot-loader.aspx
--- On Wed, 6/9/10, phi gcc <[email protected]> wrote: From: phi gcc <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] New OS bring up with Vbox ? To: "Klaus Espenlaub" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 3:35 AM On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Klaus Espenlaub <[email protected]> wrote: > phi gcc wrote: >> >> Hi Klaus, >> >> Thanx for the ideas. >> I am look at various way, and your ideas are good indeed. I try to >> minimise the weel re-invention. > > Please stay on the list... that way more people can contribute and learn. I missed the reply all, here is the copy of our exchange. > > Sounds easily possible... one way avoiding the raw file/vdi conversion would > be to use a (software) iSCSI target. VirtualBox supports this, presenting it > as a regular disk to the guest OS. Very good point, I will loo at it. > > You must be careful of course, as (potentially) sharing disks this way is > not safe at all ;) Indeed, I use iScsi already for other purpose :) > Forget it - hand crafting a saved state is nearly impossible. It contains > the detailed state of the CPU, memory and all devices. Getting the latter > right is nearly impossible. May be I misunderstood the concept of a snapshot, I thought it was the ability from teh host to take an image of all the resource save it and resume from that state later. In my case I would craft 'snapshoot' with no 'device' setup as the going to be booted OS would redo the devices discovery and init. >> >> The idea is that I'd like to have guest kernel crashdump efficently. > > That sounds feasible - with custom changes to VirtualBox of course. Hum, I looked a bit into this, downloaded the vbox src and loaded all the debian packages as said in the man and the build failed, I guess I got to learn a bit more about using the vbox API for implemented things and later 'may be' expand vbox capabilities :) Thanx for your sugestions. Cheers, Phi _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
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