rvanetta
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Posted: Mar. 14 2005,10:15 |
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Using a stripped down windows install (created using nLite) I had no problem loading Win2k on a 500mb disk image and even had 50+ to spare. Given that DSL takes only 50 megs and qemu ~1mb, the cd still has room for at least 145+megs (and 50mb+ on the image). With the DSL distro properly configured with SDL support running most any OS will run fine. Don't mean to beat a dead horse, but seriously the options aren't limited to QEMU; PearPC could allow Mac OS X to run Live (or Os8 with Basilisk II). With the various open source emulators one can now run virtually any operating system from a live self contained cd or DVD.
On a side note, VPN works beautifully from inside of QEMU. With this knowledge, a crafty IT dept can easily put together a live CD that is loaded with all appropriate security patches and policies. The beauty of this is that the user would only require one cd that can autoload from windows (using the win32 port of QEMU) or boot straight from CD (using DSL to load qemu).
I'll apologize in advanced for the length in which I mention the idea of emulation as opposed to DSL, but it seems as though that DSL is the key that would make so much of this possible
Rob
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