[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[Peter Robinson]

>
> > - Can be easily booted on all Virtualisation solutions
> > (KVM/Zen/VMWare/Virtualbox/Fusion/Hyper-V etc) with no changes as they
> > all support booting off a CD iso image (your proposal would need the
> > VM drivers for at least storage to work properly for all of them)
>
> They also all support booting off a hard drive image, right? Which is
> what we'd do.
>
>
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!

Peter
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