[Live-demo] Virtual machine overview documents

[Hamish]

Micha wrote:
> So if there was a first "Overview of OSGeo Live on Virtual Machines"
> document, then it would be easy to add additional detailed Howto's
> for other VM platforms as linked docs.

see:
  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start
  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_Virtual_Machines
  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Build#Mounting_a_Virtual_Image
  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing#VM_testing


I would suggest to include kvm/qemu in the list too, from Linux it's a
real breeze:

# e.g., give it 1024 MB memory and 2 processors to work with:
$ kvm -m 1024 -smp 2 -hda osgeo-live-vm-6.0beta2.vmdk

and off you go!


Hamish