Steps to Create a KLV ISO with a QEMU KLV Virtual Machine

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For some time I have been curious to see how successful creating ISO and SFS images would be when working from a KLV Pseudo Full Install running in a QEMU virtual machine. If working with virtual HDD's would still create accurate file system images.

This method is fully manual and requires creativity. @fredx181 's remaster utility will most likely do the same job and is far less complicated to use.

Note: I am using Tigervnc-client to connect to the VM

The test entails using KLV-Airdale-rc4.1.iso booted with QEMU. First steps are creating the VM using the aqemu wizard to set up a basic VM with 4 gb of RAM and these extra arguments in the Advance Options -cpu host -vnc 192.168.254.13:0 which selects using the CPU from the host machine and setting up the VNC feed so it is accessible from any machine on the LAN using a VNC client. Not that important but allows working on the QEMU machine from a remote host.

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In aqemu added in the Media section the ISO for rc4.1 as a CD-ROM drive. I immediatley used the aqemu option to generate a start script for the virtual machine. Now ready for a first system start, by executing the KLV VM start script and the Tigervnc-client and the boot selection menu appears, from which I selected RAM0 mode. At this point the VM HDD has no partitions and is not formatted so RAM0 mode is perfect for this point of the project.

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2nd step is to run GParted from Application->System and create a new partition table in the MSDOS protocol.
The virtual HDD has been created with 10 gb capacity.

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3rd Step begins now that a virtual hard drive partition is ready. New directories are created /mnt/sda1/KLV-Airedale-rc4.1 and /mnt/sda1/KLV-rc4.2.

With Thunar open up /mnt/sr0 and copy the contents EXCEPT for the 07KLV-airedale_rootfs.sfs image file into the
/mnt/sda1/KLV-rc4.2 directory. With Thunar click on the /mnt/sr0/]07KLV-airedale_rootfs.sfs to mount the SFS. Create a new directory:
/mnt/sda1/KLV-Airedale-rc4.1/upper_changes and copy the contents of the mounted SFS into upper_changes. Once finished umount the SFS by clicking on it in Thunar.

Create a dummy rootfs directory: /mnt/sda1/KLV-Airedale-rc4.1/06Dummy_rootfs.

The Pseudo Full Install setup of KLV-Airedale-rc4.1 will look similar to this:

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Open a terminal from /mnt/sda1/KLV-Airedale-rc4.1 and run:

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./wd_grubconfig

Copy the boot stanza's resulting from the run and save as a file for later insertion into the menu.lst produced by Grub4Dos.

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Running Applications->System->Grub4Dos and let it install the boot loader and create the menu.lst.

Replace the contents of menu.lst with those in the grub_config.txt file or the copied terminal results.

Now it is possible to reboot and run from the CD-ROM drive (iso) or for the HDD installation.

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