Jesse Keating wrote:
Wrong and wrong. When using a USB key (which you can also do via virt
systems) you can in fact update software, save files/settings. The
thing you can't do at this point is update the kernel.
Is the procedure for this documented somewhere? I didn't think the free
vmware products would boot a usb image - but haven't tried it either.
All of those are good reasons not to bother.
Not to bother looking at what features it has also, obviously.
So far I haven't seen anything in release notes that looks anywhere near
as convenient as downloading a ready to run vmware image. The process
to create a bootable USB looks like it requires a already-installed
system, and I don't see any estimate of the disk space and time it will
waste to do the 'install to hard drive' in a VM to get a writable
system. I've also always had to track down hacks to make vmware tools
work when I wanted to run fedora under vmware - is that still a problem?
I suppose you could run a CD live image inside of a bare VMware instance
but you'd take a double hit or worse on performance plus wasting the
time and plastic to burn the image.
How is it a double hit, especially if you're booting from the iso image
rather than a burned media?
Isn't there an extra layer of filesystem compression happening to access
the iso files? And on a real CD you have the slow seek time too.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
--
fedora-devel-list mailing list
fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
