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Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:48:04PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: |
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>>I'm using qemu to run the firewall which in turn creates a self flash |
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>>memory image of itself. Maybe you are right though I should look into |
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>>the virtual machine as the framework from which I generate the flash |
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>>image. |
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> I am actually quite interested in the details. What system do you run |
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> on the guest system? OpenBSD? And can you give a brief description of |
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> your network schematics? |
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it's not what you imagine. That will need to wait for me to spend time |
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with xen. |
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all I'm doing right now is running IPCop in qemu. then using ssh, copy |
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over configuration files, run the build flash image process, copy it |
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back and then iterate to the next configuration. |
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I'm trying to eliminate the /boot partition and the process of building |
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a bootable flash image is so fragile that I'm having trouble making all |
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the pieces lined up. |
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This is why I was hoping there was some way to create a multi-partition |
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"disk" out of a file and be able to read and write them in the same way |
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we do multi-partition hard drives. |
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I am about 30 pico seconds away from finding out if I can mount up the |
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disk image with qemu as a separate drive without spending the 60 |
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seconds+ it takes to start up or shut down qemu.hopefully I can make the |
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build process work that way. It might be less pain although making grub |
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work..."oh bother," said Pooh bear. |
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---eric |
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