On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:55:33AM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote: > Why not put then on cdrom or disk?
It simplifies device and mountpoint enumeration not to have a separate disk. It would also mean we couldn't use standard Fedora paths, or we'd have to have bind-mount /bin etc on to the disk mount point, which again complicates things. Anyway, what we're talking about here is a problem in qemu. How is making initrd loading faster not a benefit for everyone? Every boot has to load an initrd of some size, so making that operation faster benefits every user, even if individually only by a small amount. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
