Virtual Machine

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Virtual Machine
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Generic virtual machine target. This is particularly useful when doing development and testing.

Installation

https://maedevu.maemo.org/images/virtual-machines/

There are three different types of images: VirtualBox (.box), QEMU (.qcow2, .vdi) and Vagrant. The VirtualBox image may be converted to a VMware VMDK image which has been reported to perform better and have good hardware acceleration. Converting the qcow2 image to raw allows it to be used on real hardware.

Running on VirtualBox

The image is archived, we need to unpack it first:

mkdir -p ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/maemo-leste
tar xzf maemo-leste-1.0-amd64-virtual-20180425.box -C ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/maemo-leste

Start VirtualBox, File -> Import Appliance... -> VirtualBox VMs/maemo-leste/box.ovf -> Import. The virtual machine name is devuan-ascii-prevagrant.

Unpacked files may now be removed:

rm -r ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/maemo-leste

Running on QEMU

To run image on qemu, you can do:

xz -d maemo-leste-1.0-amd64-virtual-20180425.vdi.xz

qemu-system-x86_64 maemo-leste-1.0-amd64-virtual-20180425.vdi

Note that unaccelerated qemu is too slow to run maemo leste in an useful way.

Running on real hardware

xz -d maemo-leste-1.0-amd64-virtual-20180425.qcow2.xz qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O raw maemo-leste-1.0-amd64-virtual-20180425.qcow2 delme.img

Now you can copy delme.img ... to a spare harddrive? I tried with USB stick and could not get that to work.