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Booting an x86 Virtual Machine from an iPod

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the what-happened-to-communing-with-nature dept.

randomjohndoe writes "IBM has taken the next logical extension of booting Linux from a flash drive. Researchers were recently able to boot Knoppix from an iPod and run an x86 virtual machine in VMware, which provided an easy way to encrypt the whole operating environment. The tests were conducted on a 60GB iPod photo using Knoppix."

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  1. yep by rebug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not designed to have the HD running very hard, either. Run an OS off your iPod for ten minutes and that bad boy is smokin' hot.

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  2. Re:umm, ok, that's never been done before! by pokka · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ok, so they used an ipod as an external usb hard drive and booted knoppix with it. we pay researchers to do stuff like this??? there is absolutely nothing amazing/revolutionary/interesting about that...

    Well, maybe it's not revolutionary, but it's nice that someone took the time to actually figure out all the random issues related to having a roaming workstation (not just a roaming profile) and making sure that it not only works on any x86 configuration, but that files, settings, and preferences are written back to the device, apps work properly, and everything is encrypted so that your data isn't compromised if your device is stolen..

    It's more of a complete solution, versus a bunch of ideas that "anyone could have put together" but no one did.