Quote Originally Posted by utu View Post
Greetings again, Capricorny.

I admit to being a Luddite, opposed to learning anything new unless
or until it is absolutely necessary. But,

My impression is that a qemu approach WITHOUT hardware acceleration
is a poor alternative to that of making a LiveCD to accomplish the
same purpose. The same purpose being the eventual production of a
LiveUSB derived from a downloaded iso. The time and cost of making
an interim LiveCD product are rather minimal, and for the most part,
already automated.

A qemu approach WITH hardware acceleration seems a much more complex
approach than the "poor-man's install" alternative which I understand
Klaus K has recently provided 7.4 which also makes an interim LiveCD
unnecessary. Below is my slight edit of Klaus K's 7.4 release notes**
almost subliminal advertisement of this new feature:

CD- or DVD-size LiveUSB,

And, of course, update 'V7.4.1, etc' as appropriate.

**See for example, http://knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix742-en.html
Well, I think your impression in this case is simply wrong. With or without acceleration does not make much of a difference in the simplest use case, where the task is merely to run flash-knoppix.
It is when you use qemu to check out the new version, that the difference really kicks in. And being able to avoid booting from optical media is time and effort saving. Most smaller laptops sold today don't even have an optical drive.

But qemu surely can't beat that new command line creation option in flash-knoppix! Starting with 7.4.X only three days ago, I wasn't aware of it .
I will probably use it in the future, at least sporadically. The great advantage of using qemu/kvm is that you can check out how the new release works before creating a flash install.

Qemu/kvm is also an extremely good general tool, almost ideal for running Knoppix in a VM with no adaptation at all: Put a Knoppix instance on a separate partition, have a non-mounted boot partition, just use old grub with qemu to boot the main harddisk MBR, select the actual Knoppix partition and run it.