Re: [Tails-dev] Using VMs in Tails

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Author: intrigeri
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Using VMs in Tails
Hi David,

intrigeri wrote (06 Jan 2014 19:17:57 GMT) :
>> One favor I ask of you is if you could point me to some
>> documentation that enumerates what all this might be.


> I'm afraid we have anything better than our design doc:


>    https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/


> ... and the sub-pages it points to. I realize these documents are not
> optimized for the kind of research you're doing. Feel free to ask any
> specific question about whatever you find unclear, or undocumented.
> I'm glad to plug the holes in our design doc whenever it makes sense.


>> A second favor, how do you feel about our method? Do you have an
>> alternative method? Ideally, this would be self-maintaining or
>> require a minimal amount of effort.


> I think I would personally first try to share the boot device image,
> and add some conditional code that disables what you don't need when
> booted as a guest VM, based on some parameter passed on the kernel
> command-line. But perhaps that would become messy too quickly, and
> your stacked FS approach makes more sense. To be honest, I don't
> realize yet how spread and large the differences will need to be, and
> of what kind they will be, so perhaps starting with listing those (see
> the above question) would help picking the best tool for the task.


Did you start listing the differences that the guest filesystem and
behaviour should have, compared to the host?

Cheers,
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intrigeri
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