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

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

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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 parameter. Thus, the "run" script
would look like this:

qemu-system-i386 -kernel invaders.exec

Please find the kernel image attached. It is built from the Debian
sources found here:

https://packages.qa.debian.org/i/invaders.html

Hope this helps. If there are any further questions, please do not
hesitate to ask me.

- Fabian

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 image file instead of an actual hard-drive partition the
next time.

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