Absolutely.
Why should I boot it from a CD?
In particular, if I want to run something like this in a virtual machine.
I'm not a big fans of wasting media.
And seriously aren't you just a "...pawn in game of life"?
An ISO is ideal for booting in a VM, no need to burn it Jim. The issue I have with this is that there is no bootable usb image available to download, just instructions to create one that don't work on any machine I own.