Re: [Xen-users] Xen on USB Key

["William Man" <williamman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had initial thoughts along the same line.  I have built the kernel to run
off a key, but not tried it yet.
But ALL logging need to be moved to tmp, all lock files need to be moved to
tmp, etc...

As the general lifetime of a key is like 10yrs, if you only write on it
once/twice a day.  But if you use it daily then..... it won't last long.

Also, I had an idea of using a squash FS, (if its called that), where you
mount the drive read only, then mount a ramdrive ontop of it.  So any
modifications will be from the ram.  Same as what live cds do.  But if it
crashes, you have no logs.  Or, sacrifice ram and boot into ramdisk.

Obviously this requires alot of effort, which i currently don't have.


W



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dániel Vásárhelyi" <asdmin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "xen users list" <Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen on USB Key


On 1/23/06, Jayesh Salvi <jayeshsalvi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Here is the idea. I am running a domU out of a partition on a USB drive.
I
> use the other partition to store the domU state. Then I carry this USB key
> to my office and restore the VM at the point where I left it. Thus I am
> trying to use xen's virtualization to carry my desktop on a USB key.
>  http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~salvi/xenonkey/index.html
I have the strong opinion your key will _die_ in couple of weeks.

Daniel

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