Iain,
thanks very much for your efforts on live-wrapper. I can confirm that 0.4 fixes #831367, #831368, and #831637 and that I can build a working minimal isohybrid image, choosing the unstable distribution to get a 4.7.8 kernel with support for recent CPUs (e.g. Skylake). As root:
lwr -d unstable
Both of these QEMU command lines then succeed and give me a usable console (using hda as a model for booting from a thumb drive).
UEFI boot (as you note in the docs, this requires the ovmf package for the tianocore firmware):
qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -m 1024 -bios /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd -hda live.iso
BIOS boot:
qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -m 1024 -hda live.iso
I have not yet tried booting from a physical thumb drive.
Thanks again, Iain. Much appreciated.
Kind regards,
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Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand