[vbox-dev] Linux VHD Boot available - download and boot your physical pc, also runs as vm

[Alexey Eremenko]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> For your information, we used VirtualBox disk source code to make Linux VHD boot possible. Source code will be provided later after more cleanup, and with VDI/VMDK support added.
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> A sample Ubuntu VHD package is ready for download:
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> http://www.vmlite.com/index.php/download/22-appliances (free site registration required)
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> download, extract it, then double click setup.exe on Windows, reboot
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> detailed instructions:
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> http://www.vmlite.com/appliances/ubuntu-910-readme.html
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> screenshot:
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> http://www.vmlite.com/images/vboot/vboot-grub2.png
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> VMLite Team

Sounds cool !

Your readme does not mentions *very* important topic.
Is this normal VHD image installed or is it a specially prepared image
for VBoot ?
If normal image, then any guest OS will work, starting from DOS, and
if VBoot-ready image, then which packages need to be installed in the
guest?

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"