On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Kevin Kofler<kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote: > You make several wrong assumptions: > 1. You assume that power users all use virtualization and will use it to try > the software. > 2. You assume that most of our users are power users. > 3. You assume that people will not want to install the system on their > actual hardware after trying it in virtualization. > None of these assumptions are valid. > > The thing is, in the real world, people need the live CD for various > reasons: testing the image on actual hardware, installing it to their > actual hardware etc. So we'd end up distributing BOTH a CD ISO and a VM > image, which means: > * twice the amount of space needed on mirrors and > * people who use your VM image to try out Fedora will have to download it > all over again to actually install it! > > So I really don't see the benefit when you can just boot the CD ISO in your > VM. You don't even need to create a VM image in the first place. QEMU boots > fine with only "-cdrom foo.iso". +1 -Adam -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
