[Ilugc] VM Ware
- From: shuveb@xxxxxxxxx (Shuveb Hussain)
- Date: Thu Aug 18 10:48:29 2005
Hi,
A feature I like in VMWare is that you can "attach" the virtual
machine's CD drive to an ISO image. Hence, you don't need to burn CDs
from downloaded Linux distributions to install in a virtual machine.
Saves the environment. :)
Here I assume you are talking about using an ISO image as the virtual
machine's CDROM drive. The same is possible in Qemu as well.
Networking is also supported using TUN/TAP.
For example, to install an OS from an CDROM ISO image into a hard disk
file, the command would be:
$ qemu -hda hard_drive.img -cdrom ubuntu.iso -boot d
The "-boot d" option will make qemu boot off the iso image specified
with the "-cdrom" option. CDROM ISO images can also be changed/ejected
during runtime, through the monitor interface. Saving the VM state is
also supported.
--shuveb
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