[Fedora-livecd-list] virtual machine

[Glen Eustace]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 19:52 +0300, Filip Tsachev wrote:
> > PS: I am using VMWare for prototyping the CD and would highly recommend
> > it. As soon as the iso image has been written I can boot it in a virtual
> > machine.
> 
> probably Xen or qemu could do the same job for free - not that I'm
> fully aware of their respective capabilities, the speed running it on
> VMWare differs from an actual boot as you know. I'd also like to know
> how to make it to ask for/or probe itseft for the amount of ram to
> determine the right part for ramdisk and cache.

I was more advocating the method rather than the product, all though I
do like VMWare. I already had it so I used it, I think I will have a
look at Xen and qemu as well.

I have been giving the caching vs ramfs idea some more thought and am
not sure whether there is really any significant benefit in moving files
to the ram drive. My understanding is that the 2.6 kernel will use all
available ram for disk buffers. So if a file/program has been read off
of the CD once, is there any difference between reading it a 2nd time
from a ramfs or already having it is the disk buffers.

Glen
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