On 06/21/2018 04:35 PM, Tuan M. Hoang wrote: > Hi Christian, > > On 06/13/2018 03:32 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> On 06/13/2018 05:58 AM, Tuan M. Hoang wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> The Alpine Linux Project has released the the 2nd release candidate for >>> its 3.8 stable series with support for z/VM and KVM. >>> >>> For the installation guide and more information, please visit : >>> https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/S390x. >> >> Thanks for the good writeup. >> Will there also be a bootable iso image to simplify the KVM installation even >> more? > > rc8 includes a bootable iso image for KVM. Please try it out at: > http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.8/releases/s390x/alpine-standard-3.8.0_rc8-s390x.iso
I can easily boot that iso image with kvm: $ qemu-system-s390x -enable-kvm -nographic -cdrom alpine-standard-3.8.0_rc8-s390x.iso LOADPARM=[ ] Using virtio-blk. ISO boot image size verified Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. [...] Welcome to Alpine Linux 3.8 Kernel 4.14.51-0-vanilla on an s390x (/dev/console) localhost login: same happens with virt-install. So its an ready to use image but not an installer? > >>> >>> For running Alpine in Docker, please visit : >>> https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/S390x/Docker. >>> >>> If you have any questions or comments, please reply to this thread or >>> send an email to this list, or alpine-de...@lists.alpinelinux.org, or >>> reach out at IRC channels #alpine-linux or #alpine-devel at Freenode, or >>> use #alpinelinux on Twitter. >>> > > Tuan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
