Bug 85520 – optimized hard disk image for QEmu

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description Jerome 2005-03-16 09:32:52 UTC]

QEmu is a fast CPU emulator, it runs on a lot of platforms and can emulate/virtualise a lot of CPUs :
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

A related project gather hard disk images of free OS for QEmu :
http://www.freeoszoo.org/
This is intended to end user without technical skills who want to know free OS by running them in user space inside the QEmu sand box.

Could we not not provide a highly optimized Gentoo Linux disk image for QEmu ? I already wrote some scripts intended to generate a disk image for Bochs, a Pentium emulator.

This could be a good publicity for Gentoo Linux.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-16 09:48:45 UTC]

What exactly does this have to do with catalyst?

[Comment 2 Jerome 2005-03-16 13:13:55 UTC]

Since Catalyst generates live installation CD, I mean it could generate hard disk image.

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-16 14:50:39 UTC]

Ahhh... OK ;]

Can't QEMU use ISO images?

[Comment 4 Jerome 2005-03-17 10:03:47 UTC]

no

[Comment 5 Jerome 2005-03-23 13:07:42 UTC]

Documentation did not tell anything about ISO.

I tried with Mandrake Linux 10.2RC1 ISO file. It works !

Maybe it could help you to build optimized disk image ?

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-23 20:38:05 UTC]

You can boot the ISO image.  There isn't much that can be done to "optimize" it, so I would say the support it already there.