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Unpacked files may now be removed:
Unpacked files may now be removed:
  rm -r ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/maemo-leste
  rm -r ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/maemo-leste
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


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


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Revision as of 03:57, 5 October 2018

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Virtual Machine
Manufacturer Generic
Specifications
Hardware Features
Software Features

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.

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