From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35670 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owa9X-0008It-Ef for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:34:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owa9V-00042e-Vl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:34:55 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f45.google.com ([74.125.83.45]:43033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owa9V-00042S-SS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:34:53 -0400 Received: by gwb11 with SMTP id 11so903145gwb.4 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C936060.2010808@shellshadow.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:34:40 -0400 From: Jon Hancock MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080106090808020301050907" Subject: [Qemu-devel] minimal install issues List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080106090808020301050907 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm new here and exploring options for a product I'm tasked to build. I need to create a virtual machine appliance (guest: linux, host: win xp/vista/7). I must minimize the install process as much as possible. Installing Qemu + appliance VM as two separate install processes is too much for the end user. I need to have no host reboots and the end user would be incapability of answering questions about their networking. The only thing I can assume is the windows host has a working connect to the Internet. The guest vm does not need to communicate with the host. The vm simply needs Internet access. Which networking options should I be looking into in this case? The docs @ http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking don't tell me enough to know which road to go down. I would ideally like a single EXE, "zero-install" solution. Also acceptable is unpacking a zip into a directory and having the entire solution self contained. Any advice as I go down this road? Is there an example of an appliance doing something similar I can study? thanks, Jon --------------080106090808020301050907 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm new here and exploring options for a product I'm tasked to build.
I need to create a virtual machine appliance (guest: linux, host: win xp/vista/7).  I must minimize the install process as much as possible.

Installing Qemu + appliance VM as two separate install processes is too much for the end user.  I need to have no host reboots and the end user would be incapability of answering questions about their networking.  The only thing I can assume is the windows host has a working connect to the Internet.  The guest vm does not need to communicate with the host.  The vm simply needs Internet access.  Which networking options should I be looking into in this case?  The docs @ http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking  don't tell me enough to know which road to go down.

I would ideally like a single EXE, "zero-install" solution.  Also  acceptable is unpacking a zip into a directory and having the entire solution self contained.

Any advice as I go down this road?  Is there an example of an appliance doing something similar I can study?

thanks, Jon
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