[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[Douglas McClendon]

On 01/27/2010 06:32 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
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>      > - 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.
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>
> 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

Peter,  It seems Bernie brought up the fact that despite 
zyx-liveinstaller being prominently featured on the blueberry download 
page, that people like him still aren't getting the message that it 
exists in blueberry, and already provides the functionality you 
attribute to liveinst, which is not in blueberry, but may be in future 
releases.

Can you please do the community the favor of mentioning 
zyx-liveinstaller as an existing, supported, featured, alternative the 
possible future use of liveinst?

Or if you have some technical criticism of zyx-liveinstaller that merits 
its absense from your discussions, please explain it to me.

Thank you,

-dmc


> 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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