[Grml] grml virtual machine

[John G. Heim]

I want to create a custom grml ISO that has a kernel patched for
hardware speech synthesiers. There's a bug in the kernel code so most
hardware speech synths don't work. If I can put ma custom compiled
kernel on a grml disk, I can use it with my hardware speech synth.

The man page for grml-live recommends running it on a virtual machine
running grml. That sounds like a good idea. I have a VMWare player
virtual machine booted into grml from the latest 32-bit iso file. But I
am uncertain as to what to do next. Should I use grml2usb or
grml-debbootstrap or something else?

What's the best way to set up a virtual machine to run grml?

[Darshaka Pathirana]

Hi John,

Post by John G. Heim
I want to create a custom grml ISO that has a kernel patched for
hardware speech synthesiers.
[..]
The man page for grml-live recommends running it on a virtual
machine running grml. That sounds like a good idea. I have a VMWare
player virtual machine booted into grml from the latest 32-bit iso
file. But I am uncertain as to what to do next. Should I use
grml2usb or grml-debbootstrap or something else?
What's the best way to set up a virtual machine to run grml?

According to the grml-live documentation[1] you can run grml-live in
a plain Debian-Installation.

[1] http://grml.org/grml-live/#deploy-on-debian

So you CAN install Debian with grml-debootrap[2]

[2] http://grml.org/grml-debootstrap/

but you also can perform an installation by any means you're
comfortable with.

After you have a running virtual machine you can install grml-live
like it is described in [1].

HTH && HNY,
- Darsha