Wow. Today I put a CD-Rom in my linux box, fired up QEMU running a Windows VM, within that fired up the VMWare Infrastructure Client to connect to a VM farm, started up a virtual machine and connect its virtual CD-Rom back through the VM connection, through QEMU, to my local disk, and using that, installed Ubuntu. Surprisingly enough, it went pretty quickly and easily, despite my initial incredulity that it would work at all.
-c
