21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
9:35 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Müfit Eribol hme@onart.com.tr wrote:
Just for learning, could you please provide some more info about booting up the LiveCD ISO image (uploaded to the host) to work on a guest? How is the command line?
Invoking kvm (qemu-kvm) from the CLI:
kvm \ -boot d \ -cdrom /path/name/to/liveCD/iso/file \ -drive file=${IMG_FILE},index=0,boot=off \ [other kvm command line options like networking]
where IMG_FILE=/path/to/VM/image/file
I use System Rescue CD for the CD ROM. It does have XFCE GUI support + GParted. A simple startx fires up a XFCE desktop and voila you can use the Graphical GParted utility on the VM "hard disk".
HTH -- Arun Khan