[Fedora-livecd-list] tips for embedding qemu on livecd to boot directly from windows?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Apr 21 23:50:22 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 00:10 -0400, Adam Stokes wrote:
> my end goal is to put a livecd into a running windows box and allow a
> user to run that.
> 
> from my research distro's like helix, dsl have this capability but
> seem to use some sort of knoppix trick with possibly cloop? and a
> particular qemu image to allow this to take place.
> 
> has anyone run into this or could possibly point me to some
> documentation for livecd remastering to this extent?

The big thing would be using %post --nochroot so that you can stick
files directly on the iso.  Which you would then want to be the qemu
binary for Windows as well as probably a script to start things.  The
existing %post --nochroot should give a reasonable idea of how to put
things there

Jeremy




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