Why this all?
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Imagine an appliance you can send by email to demonstrate your software.
Something like Centos 5.1 which gets 720MB in its minimal installation is
just comletely unusable..

Minix 3 would be my preferred choice though but it has no thread support (yet).

disk image formats of different emulators
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Transform QEMU image to VirtualBox image:
http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/howto-transform-a-qemu-image-to-a-virtualbox-image/

Transform QEMU image to VMWare image:
http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0020.html

Transform VMWare image into a MS Virtual Disk image (VHD):
http://vmtoolkit.com/files/folders/converters/entry8.aspx

VMWare on Windows logon problem:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/88396;jsessionid=976F209BADCAF3F9AA1DA6C2910664DF?tstart=0&start=15
(but most likely you need Administrator permission to access the VMWare auth
service which is a nono for user accounts!)

cross compilation
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howto: http://www.landley.net/ols/ols2007/tutorial.txt
crosstools: http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.43/doc/crosstool-howto.html

A little bit old, but quite interesting:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/CROSS-COMPILE-GUTS

Minimal Linux from Boot to Bash:
http://axiom.anu.edu.au/~okeefe/p2b/buildMin/buildMin.html

http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/CROSS-COMPILE-GUTS

http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO_bbox_with_uclibc.txt
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/hlfs-dev/2004-November/001291.html
http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/CROSS-COMPILE-GUTS

How to create a qemu image in combination with losetup and sfdisk
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http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg01205.html

other small Linux projects
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http://www.creo.hu/~csaba/lowlife/uclibc-bootfloppy.txt
http://cross-lfs.org
ttylinux
dsl damn small linux