[H-GEN] Dealing with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

[Rick Phillips]

> We use http://www.landley.net/code/aboriginal/ as the basis for this.
> Aboriginal Linux is designed to be the bare minimum you need to build a
> self hosting Linux OS from scratch.  By "self hosting" it means that it
> can build itself when running under itself, it has suitable compiling
> tools.  This is then used to build whatever else you want on top of
> the minimal self hosting OS running in QEMU.  It can also build things
> like Linux From Scratch, and they are working on Funtoo (with the
> Funtoo developers), plus bootstrapping other common distros.
> 
> I use Aboriginal Linux to create it's minimal image, automatically boot
> itself in QEMU, and run build scripts that compile the rest of the
> dependencies for my clients application, then the application itself.
> The build scripts then put it all together into a disk image (minus the
> build tools) suitable for dd'ing onto a USB drive that plugs into the
> target hardware that it can boot from.
> 
> Building a similar system that includes QEMU in the resulting OS, and a
> suitably prepared corporate Windows 7 disk image for your purposes
> should not be too hard.
> 
> For an open source project that needs to build for a variety of OS's, I
> have been using my experience on this Aboriginal Linux project to write
> a script that boots up a succession of QEMU instances running that
> variety of OS's, and doing scripted builds on each of them.  This
> includes Windows XP and Windows 7.
> 
> Feel free to pick my brains.

Thanks for your input David.  You have pointed me to an OS I have never
heard of before ("aboriginal").  I am going to have a tinker and may be
in touch with you.

Thanks for your input and offer of assistance.

Regards,

Rick