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Posted: April 23 2006,14:20 QUOTE
hi!

is someone interessted in creating a special editon of DSL?

what will be needed?
- GUI (as already in current DSL releases)
- working-LAN (as already in current DSL releases)
- vmwareplayer
- DSL xvesa setup
- SSH
- FTP-client for transfering virtual machines to host PC (DSL)

what will not be needed?
- the other apps in DSL: editors, word-processing, ...

so to put it in a nutshell:
i´m looking for a DSL-release which has all the driver capabilities as current releases BUT with only one app included: VMwareplayer :>

what do you think?
anyone interessted in creating this OS?
my linux-skills aren´t good enough - otherwise i would create this OS-version by myself and share it with you :>
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Posted: April 23 2006,16:17 QUOTE
I have done some research in using a host OS for Qemu instead of VMWare. I would suggest that if all possible you do not include a GUI. You have more resources running without.

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Posted: April 23 2006,20:49 QUOTE
sounds ok for me - what do you have?

(1)
this host-os should be really easy to install or should be bootable from a CD or USB-stick :> but it has to be able to mount the HDD...

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is it possible to convert vmware to qemu?

(3)
any further ideas concerning a DSL as a vmplayer-player OS? :>
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Posted: April 23 2006,22:54 QUOTE
Qemu runs without being installed on the host OS. It will also run with the Host being Linux, Windows and others. I have run a guest DSL os on top of DSL running in text mode (DSL 2) and it does nicely with a decent CPU (I was using 750MHz).

There is also a Qemu accelerator which does need to be installed. It could be installed on the host OS and then when starting the guest, it would run even faster.

The host could be run from a CD or USB and would not even need a HDD, although it certainly would be possible.

The advantage I see with Qemu is that the complete guest OS with Qemu can be installed on a USB and started anywhere on nearly any computer and leaving no files on the host computer.

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Posted: April 24 2006,12:29 QUOTE
sounds interessting - can u upload this distro somewhere maybe with a short instruction?

i´d suggest www.rapidshare.de :> iirc u can upload up to 50 megs in one step...
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