[Thincrust-devel] How to copy libvirt images to usb/cd so that I can boot them as independent appliance

[Bryan Kearney]

On 09/15/2009 07:35 AM, Kamesh Jayachandran wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Sorry if it is a wrong place to ask.
>
> I have the appliance created using appliance-creator.
>
> When I run it using virt-manager it is *terribly* slow with 1G of RAM
> dedicated to the guest.

Couple of questions:

1) Is this slower than other virtual machines you have run?
2) KVM or Xen?

>
> I think of testing it as an independent appliance.
>
> My search did not yield good results.
>
> I copied the libvirt images to usb disk using 'dd' command, but it did
> not boot.
>
> Any ideas?

We would need to modify the bootloader of the USB similar to how live 
USB does it. I dont think it is a a slam dunk. Can you try taking the 
same kicksart file and runnig it through the liveusb creator? See if 
that works right out of the box.

I would love to know if it would :)

-- bk