LiveCD qemu autoplay?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Fri Feb 10 02:40:10 GMT 2006


On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:40:03AM +0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:22:53PM -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
> > > What would it take to launch the LiveCD in qemu on Windows?
> > However, if qemu doesn't yet provide a way to access data on the host
> > CD-ROM drive, I don't see how we can make it work.
> 
> All the "data" on the LiveCD is actually stored in the large cloop file,
> which is a file in the real sense, so avoids the need for raw device access.

Yes, I misunderstood the nature of the limitations on qemu running on
Windows (I didn't even realize it ran on Windows before...).

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 - mdz



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