If you are looking for a system to boot quickly, LinuxFromScratch would be pretty fast, but takes a looooong time to build.
-Joseph On Saturday 02 September 2006 4:43 pm, Michael Fisher wrote: > I want to know if the following idea is impossible, possible or just crazy. > > I want to create a distro small Linux distro that will boot as a Qemu > guest as quickly as possible. I realize that the time it takes to > boot, open apps, etc is based on host OS, CPU, memory, etc. What I am > wondering is would it be worthwhile to tweak the hardware detection > during the boot process to align it with hardware types that are > supported in Qemu? > > As an example I have an AMD 3500+ CPU, 2 GB memory, Win XP and when > running Qemu I set it for 512MB memory. I have tested several distros > and the two best run about 45-60 seconds to boot without Kqemu and > 35-50 seconds with Kqemu running. Currently I am working with WinXP as > a host but my goal is have it run on a Linux host also. > > I turn off many checks like SCSI, PCMCIA, USB, Firewire, AGP, etc. to > get the faster time and am wondering what other areas I can look at to > speed booting & shutdown. > > Thanks in advance, > > > desNotes > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel