[Xastir] knoppix qemu

[Wes Johnston]

Don't knock it until you try it...

There are two versions of knoppix 3.8 floating around in bittorrent.  The 695meg
version does NOT contain QEMU.  The 699 meg version does.

You simply place the CD in the drive on your windows box, and it autoruns.  QEMU
window pops up and knoppix will appear Real Soon Now on your desktop.  The
problem is that it is very slow.  Very Slow.... but hey, it works.  This will
not be the cygwin killer b/c it's so very slow.  (did I mention it was slow?) I
booted it last night at 10:28pm and left it running thru the night.  This
morning before work I checked and the KDE taskbar clock said 11:06pm.  Problem
is, it was 8 hours later in real time.

I have remastered a copy of knoppix to include xastir (had to remove open office
and GIMP), I can easily remaster this Qemu version to autostart xastir as soon
as KDE loads.

And, yes, a dvd copy of knoppix with loads of maps would be nice.  I have had
difficulty getting two of my PCs to boot from DVD.  One is a toshiba laptop
with a DVD/CD drive, the other a PC with a 1st gen DVD recorder.  However the
idea of comandeering any PC or laptop for SAR use or EOC use is very appealing.
 The other thing that is very appealing about a CD based O/S is that when (not
if) someone screws something up, you just reboot the PC and no harm done.

You know, come to think of it, when you format your next windows load on your
laptop, create a linux swap partition of say, 2gigs so that when you do boot
from a knoppix CD it can auto find that swap partition and make use of it.

Wes


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Quoting Jason Winningham <jdw at eng.uah.edu>:

>
> On Mar 16, 2005, at 11:03 PM, Jason Hitesman wrote:
>
> > That's just it though.  QEMU lets Knoppix run inside windows.
>
> The FAQ at the qemu page says:
>
> > Is QEMU ported to Windows ?
> >  Yes, look at the documentation, but the port is in very alpha stage.
>
> "very alpha stage" doesn't sound stable. Has anyone actually used this
> on top of windows, especially for extended runs?  Can I count on it to
> run 24 hours? a week?
>
> I think a knoppix/mepis/whatever style DVD image (so we can include
> some maps) that will boot on most any PC without doing an OS install is
> the way to get at the windows users. Most of 'em aren't sophisticated
> enough to install unix, much less unix on top of an emulator, unless we
> hand them a double-clicky package that installs smoothly.
>
> Getting a disk that I can hand to a senior EE student so they can plug
> the disk in, click a couple of times, and have xastir running on
> whatever x86 laptop they have in hand is one of my personal goals for
> xastir. I don't particularly care if it's a unix boot disk, a canned
> cygwin install, or a qemu install, as long as it's reliable and
> requires minimal user interaction. Unfortunately, I don't have the time
> to work on it.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
>
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