[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 13:32 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> > 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!
>
> Sadly, you're right. I had forgotten because recenrtly I've been using
> only QEMU, which uses plain files (besides its "proprietary" format
> cow2).
>
> Ok, I agree that the .iso file will have to stay around, which doesn't
> prevent livecd-iso-to-disk from being buried for good. liveinst might
> indeed be the right tool for all the usecases we care about: VMs, USB
> sticks and hard-drive installations.
>
> Later, we may also consider uploading a few pre-converted images for the
> convenience of users.
>
>
Yes, Virtualisation is one of the major components of my job so I run into
the pain of disk conversions every day! Even between different versions of
product from the same vendor! And the supposed interchange format is a
complete waste of time :-(

Peter
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