Grey wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:37 pmI have run WDL iso in Qemu. Without SG2D, just launched. Works. Well, how does it work... Only the first option with loading into RAM. The second point of course does not work, because w_changes=/mnt/sda1/WDL-live in menu.lst, and there is no sda in Qemu by default.
But I do find ability to run well under qemu more important by far than booting from an iso file via grub2 and so on, so I do plan to experiment with that more since not having been my focus it is likely that facility could be usefully improved. In fact I haven't been using qemu much at all (though did try it out once under WDL_Arch64), but, specially for development work, I do think it is a very important resource. 'Importance' is a very subjective concept of course and priorities and interests tend to change for all of us, so really main issue becomes the fact that there is never enough time in the day and a continual barrage of interesting avenues for exploration. I have a 'bad' and regular habit of quickly stashing links I've come across for something I wish to learn more about into my Cherrytree notepad (in very disorganised fashion). Later I come across the links, which I've often not even annotated to tell me what they are about. Main result is information overload to which I react by going out for a coffee... I think that's another reason I'm fond of 'plugins' for adding new stuff to core code - that way someone else can add new and interesting developments and creations of their own giving me time to drink more coffee. But I'm interested in using qemu too, and I haven't yet checked out what I think might be the best ways to install WDL systems for use with that (probably not iso).
Positive note, however, is that I'm ahead of what was my earlier 'planning'. I had temporarily withdrawn from WeeDog-related publications (though working on it in the background) and had intended not to release anything concerned with it till around Christmas... But then I played with WDL Manjaro at home and decided it was too interesting to hold onto; didn't have time or energy to publish the new build_weedog_initrd script, but decided a 'skeleton' initrd might be a useful instant publication. Booting from iso files and so on has caught me off-guard a bit, because that is concerned with heavier new development work than I feel like doing right now, so should remain left till Christmas