qemu
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Why not VirtualBox, VMWare, Vex? Because:
- it's really free
- is fully batchable (Unix-philosophy, no GUI-nightmares)
- it's really fast
- the disk image format is quite open, so it should be able
  to convert it into many other formats

kernel
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make allnoconfig

select just hardware which is available in the QEMU emulation

busybox
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make allnoconfig

select just what's needed for booting and running a simple application

GPM
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so that copy-paste from/to the minilinux work

miniperl
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Just as a demo of an application running on this minimal Linux.

How to run it?
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export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0		(if the console mouse doesn't work)

qemu -hda minilinux.img

or in text mode

qemu -curses -hda minilinux.img

or

Visualbox (create a new machine using an "existing" virtual harddisk,
minilinux.vdi)

or

VMWare: start the player, workstation with the minilinux.vmx virtual
machine description