Tag: Virtualization

Setup the Packer Environment Prequisites The packer executable found in the download for your system at https://www.packer.io/ (Download button) needs to be in a directory that is in your PATH.

Setup the Packer Environment Prequisites The packer executable found in the download for your system at https://www.packer.io (Download button) needs to be in a directory that is in your PATH.

Option 1: Use the Image Directly (not recommended) Upload packer image using virsh ls -al *.qcow2 virsh -c qemu+ssh://user@host/system vol-upload --pool default --vol preseeded-armhf-uefi-image-preseed-image-xxxx-xx-xx-xx-xx.qcow2 --file preseeded-armhf-uefi-image-preseed-image-xxxx-xx-xx-xx-xx.

Ubuntu Cloud Images on Hyper-V now details how to use Packer to build a local Hyper-V compatible Ubuntu Cloud Image

Preface The official Ubuntu images that are built for Azure/Hyper-V really are only compatible with Hyper-V on Azure, despite Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) offering Azure/Hyper-V disk images at Ubuntu Daily Cloud Images - Focal.

Several new posts and updates.

Preface This method of compiling for armel (e.g. ARMv5, earlier, and some ARMv6) which uses pbuilder in an ARM HardFloat VM is not recommended as it is extremely slow (because of running in a emulated VM, not because of using pbuilder).

Create an UEFI (newish) ARM Hard Float (32-bit) virtual machine for Libvirt/KVM using automated image build using Packer.

Preface Whether you want old school ARM (32-bit) or a shiny new UEFI ARM (32-bit) virtual machine in Libvirt/KVM, and automated or ‘manual’ creation, there is a way to get what you want.

NB These instructions are out of date since the release of Debian 11 (Bullseye). Some parts of these guide will need to be updated to the new Debian release.

Option 1: Use the Image Directly (not recommended) Upload kernel, initrd, and packer image using virsh ls -al vmlinuz* initrd.gz* *.qcow2 virsh -c qemu+ssh://user@host/system vol-create-as --pool default --name vmlinuz-x.

NB These instructions are out of date since the release of Debian 11 (Bullseye). Some parts of these guide will need to be updated to the new Debian release.

NB These instructions are out of date since the release of Debian 11 (Bullseye). Some parts of these guide will need to be updated to the new Debian release.

Preface These are notes on creating a Windows and Linux hybrid environment, specifically when running Windows in a Libvirt/KVM VM. I also have Notes on Windows and Linux hybrid environment in a physical machine.

Preface Unless you have a new, high-powered, ARM system with which to build, the fastest and most practical way to build software for armel (early ARM CPU versions) is to cross-compile on an x86_64 machine (Debian and offshoots call this the amd64 architecture, even for non-AMD CPUs).

Overview The cross-compilation toolchains builtin to most modern Linux distributions do not support older versions of GCC. For old kernels (and other software) that require GCC4 or lower for building, this poses a challenge.

REMOVED Fork of Rpi-Distro/pi-gen WARNING: Due to https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1805913 images built on non-arm hosts are broken! As I am, once again, late to the party and there are sufficient projects for most needs (and I have enough other things to work on) I am abandoning this fork.

A guide to configuring an OVH VPS (Virtual Private Server) with CentOS 7