Could there potentially be more applications to this approach in terms of game anticheat measures, where you boot into a unified "tournament image" which is a minimal OS that only runs the game itself for competitive sessions, as an alternative to installing intrusive kernel anticheats?
I had mostly 2 issues with custom kernels: graphics card not initialised properly (black screeen after boot, no reaction to keyboard) or X starting with missing (event ?) drivers - so no keyboard and mouse.
Good idea. I used to have a similar "boot-to-DOSBox" setup which ran on the framebuffer, it was an easy way to have a little portable gaming USB drive.
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one file, declarative, can generate an image for a physical machine, single-command boot it in Qemu, etc.
Well, two files, if you package SM64 yourself. Still.
Haha, good luck booting such a kernel.