Re: About usage of floppy with linux guests on gnome-boxes

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr redhat com>]

On 12/01/2011 09:50 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:

>    The first prototype code I wrote indeed created unattended CD-ROM
> ISO but that method took quite some time and added also a lot to our
> disk-usage. On further research and discussions with some relevant
> developers, I found out that floppy method works for all OSs and
> therefore implemented it. About floppy support being broken on Linux,
> I was hoping to start using USB for Linux. Creating CD-ROM ISO is just
> way too slow.

Well, we did not see any noticeable difference among isos and floppies, 
since the ISO is going to hold most of the time a single unattended 
file, it's a tiny tiny iso :)

Maybe approach you took was to re-generate the entire install iso file, 
which is certainly a disaster in terms of time spent, in our framework 
we just create a cdrom that holds the unattended file, so the time used 
to create it is negligible.

> > So I'd like to implement unattended cdrom creation for gnome boxes,
>
>    I'm sorry but I'll only want to go that route as the last resort
> because of time and space concerns I mentioned above. How about you
> try that USB method first?

Fair enough, but my comment about the small isos holds true as far as I 
can see. As soon as I can get boxes built and I can get my first patches 
going I'll try USB first...

> > but I'm
> > still making my way on vala *and* how to build it, so I can test my changes.
> > I assume jhbuild is my best bet, or is there a shortcut that I can use (ie,
> > installing packages foo, bar, baz and then I can build it)?
>
>    At the moment, jhbuild is really your best bet. Best of luck!

OK, let's get this thing built then...

Lucas