RE: [Axiom-developer] Live CDs - silly question

[Bill Page]

Cliff,

On June 16, 2006 10:42 AM you wrote:
> 
> Out of curosity, has anyone ever tried to run a LiveCD using a
> virtual machine?  Bochs I suppose would be too slow, but maybe
> Xen one of the other newer ones?
> 
> It would be sort of cool to be able to "boot" a livecd without
> restarting your own computer, although I suppose it makes 
> more sense to just create an image in that case.
> 

??? I think it might be worth your while to read and understand

http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/DoyenVirtualMachinePackage

That is exactly what Alfredo has done using VMware. VMware is not
open source but it is free.

I don't see any reason why one could not do something very similar
with Xen.

Regards,
Bill Page.