Comment by Tepix - Hacker Neue

Tepix Dec 7, 2016 parent

I'm curious - what would a minimal Linux(?) system consist of that starts qemu at the first opportunity?

Perhaps qemu could even replace init?

kashyapc Dec 7, 2016

Related: Checkout the 'supermin'[1]

<verbatim> Supermin is a tool for building supermin appliances. These are tiny appliances (similar to virtual machines), usually around 100KB in size, which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a second when you need to boot one of them. </verbatim>

[1] http://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html

conradev Dec 7, 2016

Most likely booting directly to the Xen hypervisor and running VMs from there.

ATsch Dec 7, 2016

Have a look at Qubes OS

throwaway7767 Dec 7, 2016

I don't think qubes comes anywhere close to what the GP was asking for. It's awesome, but it's far from being a minimal linux system to bootstrap qemu. dom0 is a full Fedora install, and it uses Xen.

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