Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

2014-12-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Dienstag, den 09.12.2014, 09:51 + schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: > The multiboot image is fine. I think so. > 10 MB for a boot loader? Just wow, at some point it's better to slap > a boot sector onto the Linux kernel and be done with it, kexec already > exists. Well, it's a bit more than "jus

Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

2014-12-09 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 09.12.2014, 10:28 +0100 schrieb Kevin Wolf: >> Syslinux is relatively easy as well. Just avoid GRUB 2 if you want to >> set up disk images from the host. I've done it before, but it's ugly... > > Yep, I was talking about GR

Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

2014-12-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Dienstag, den 09.12.2014, 10:28 +0100 schrieb Kevin Wolf: > Syslinux is relatively easy as well. Just avoid GRUB 2 if you want to > set up disk images from the host. I've done it before, but it's ugly... Yep, I was talking about GRUB 2. However, in the meantime I have figured out what to do in

Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 08.12.2014 um 17:54 hat Fabian Greffrath geschrieben: > PS: I am a bit shocked by the fact how complicated it is to install GRUB > on a disk image. And, John, even if the approach you outlined worked, I > guess GRUB will find its device.map puzzled when it will get rebooted > from inside an imag

Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

2014-12-08 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am Montag, den 08.12.2014, 11:03 -0500 schrieb John Snow: >> If manually installing a bootable grub sounds gross, [...] > > Actually, this turns out not to be necessary at all. After all, GRUB > Invaders is a multiboot-compliant kernel game

Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

2014-12-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Montag, den 08.12.2014, 11:03 -0500 schrieb John Snow: > If manually installing a bootable grub sounds gross, [...] Actually, this turns out not to be necessary at all. After all, GRUB Invaders is a multiboot-compliant kernel game and as such can be loaded directly by means of qemu's -kernel p

Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

2014-12-08 Thread John Snow
On 12/08/2014 10:54 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am Montag, den 08.12.2014, 10:14 + schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: If you have the time to create the image yourself, please let me know. I'd love to, but how do I create an image with just GRUB and the game, but no actual OS? - Fabian I wou

Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

2014-12-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Montag, den 08.12.2014, 10:14 + schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: > If you have the time to create the image yourself, please let me know. I'd love to, but how do I create an image with just GRUB and the game, but no actual OS? - Fabian

Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

2014-12-08 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > I'd like to add one suggestion: GRUB Invaders [1]. This is a multi-boot > compliant kernel game that allows to play Space Invaders from within > GRUB, i.e. without an operating system. I especially recommend the > version [2] packaged in De

[Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

2014-12-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi there, thank you very much for the QEMU advent calender! What a neat idea, I enjoy it very much. I'd like to add one suggestion: GRUB Invaders [1]. This is a multi-boot compliant kernel game that allows to play Space Invaders from within GRUB, i.e. without an operating system. I especially rec