[Linux-SIG-Planning] December Meeting

[Brian Engle]

I e-mailed Dave Lundy earlier tonight about possibly presenting 
something at the next meeting that I've been working with lately, and he 
mentioned that most of the sig planning was done on this list, so I 
figured I'd ask here first.

I've spent the last couple days playing around with qemu 
(http://www.qemu.org/) to setup virtual machines for running other 
operating systems without requiring dual booting. Qemu is command line 
based, but it's easy to setup and learn, and packages are available 
through most of the package management systems I've seen so far. It also 
works on Windows. I thought it might be a useful tool for people to see 
in action, either for running a small Windows VM under linux for needed 
Windows functionality or running a linux VM on Windows to see if it's 
something they like without going through the process of partitioning 
and setting up a dual boot system.

I could probably do a 30-45 minute presentation on getting it set up, 
installing the guest OS, and using it once it's installed. I know at the 
end of the last meeting there weren't really any plans for any 
presentations at the December meeting, so figured I'd volunteer before 
it got too much closer to the meeting date. I only just subscribed to 
the list tonight, so if there's already been discussion about next 
month's topic, I don't mind putting this off to a later date.

--Brian