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.
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
As the memory of virtual machine is limited to 256M some applications will have troubles with it. One example is aptitude. To increase the memory limit you should add the swap partion or change the memory settings in the VirtualBox menu.
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.
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.
Initial configuration
On the first run you may want to generate ssh host keys and set the timezone. To do so open the "X Terminal" application and run:
sudo su - dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Make the system up-to-date:
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install linux-image-amd64 reboot
