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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. Home on iPod by CdBee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Home on iPod was a feature slated for inclusion in OSX 10.3 Panther - it was the opportunity to have an encrypted home directory, containing application settings, documents and apps in a partition on an iPod's internal drive.

    When connected to a supported Mac, the OS would allow the user to log in with their usual login and password, giving a seamless M
    the feature was apparently scrapped as desktop usage was too stressful on the iPod hard drive

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