[kwlug disc.] Quick virtualization question

[Adam Glauser]

L.D. Paniak wrote:
> I did put some thought into this a while back and found:
> 
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/40#comment_17
> 
> According to the subsequent comment, qemu should be able to boot a VM
> from the OS on a real disk partition.  The partition should be used in a
> read-only mode to avoid unfortunate corruption (main reason why I have
> yet to try it myself).

Thanks, I'll have to take a stab at this now.


> A non-free OS (like from Redmond) will almost certainly have a fit about
> the change in hardware configuration going from your physical machine to
> the  virtual machine provided by qemu.  For example, qemu uses ide
> drives in the virtual machine and if your physical machine uses sata
> drives then...

Hmm ... good point.  I haven't had to deal with that nonsense for such a 
long time that I'd forgotten about that problem.