Alpine has minimalist console ready install on ~40Mb *.iso initially if you chose -virt release. Can be installed out of the box for headless environment. With some additional env. binaries and configs + docker it grow up to 780Mb in *.qcow2 image. I suppose it will be a bit higher after additional kernel module build...
Martin ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, June 29, 2020 4:21 PM, George <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2020-06-29 8:51 a.m., Martin Sukany wrote: > > > Hi George, > > did you solved the issue? I remember that I faces similar thing when I > > installed headless ubuntu as a guest … My issue was related to the fact > > that I used ‚boot cdrom‘ directive inside my configuration (seems that > > there is a bit inconsistency between the man page and the real > > configuration). > > This is is a relevant piece of my config: > > vm "ubuntu" { > > memory 2G > > cdrom /data/vms/_iso/mini-serial.iso > > disk /data/vms/ubuntu.raw > > interface tap { switch "uplink" } > > disable > > } > > I had bad experience with usage of qcow2 disk format for Linux based guests > > — especially when you’re trying to do dozens of I/O operations — several > > disk containers crashed before I migrated them to raw format. > > if you have more than 4 vms, don’t forget to create another /dev/tap<X> > > device, otherwise you could expect the unexpectable behaviour :) > > M> > > Hello Martin, > > Thanks for the pointers. I abandoned my Linux efforts, too many issue > and things to learn no time now. My goals could be satisfied by an > OpenBSD VM and it is much better than most Linuxes ;). I have been > swimming against the current (read using things/software/apis/os/tools > etc. when people said it is not what is supposed to be done) but as of > late I find it more relaxing going with it ;). > > Virtualization is such a ... mess which like everything else in our > lives nowadays is designed to cover another mess ... I want to run Linux > software on OpenBSD because I don't want to dedicate a machine to Linux > and want to upgrade or run the version I want until I want ... I should > be free to make that choice because of "I", sarcastic here, problem is > CPU vendors and OS developers have to jump some hoops and add some > features to make it happen ... and then things happen that the I does > not like. > > Thanks for adding this info albeit to the wrong thread, I read it > because I like Alpine and was thinking of it myself, but they don't have > a ready console install version do they? > > Cheers, > > George > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I apologize if this maybe out of topic even though it is truly related > > > > to VMM than Debian. > > > > I am trying to setup a VMM Debian based guest but I'm not able to get it > > > > to work. I found some description on the web about which settings to > > > > edit in grub.cfg to enable the serial console and created a VM with 10.3 > > > > in qcow2 disk format in KVM. Now I am trying to start the same on > > > > OpenBSD 6.7 but keep getting the connected message and then just > > > > "Rebooting " after I hit some keyboard keys seems like baud rate issue > > > > but not sure. > > > > After messing with it for a while now I am getting a new error: > > > > vmctl: could not open disk image(s) > > > > even thought the disk is there and readable to the user I have setup in > > > > vm.conf in fact I have another VM with the same configuration and disk > > > > with the same permissions and in the same location that works (it is > > > > OpenBSD based). > > > > I would greatly appreciate it if someone has gone this path and can > > > > share some config info with me. > > > > Cheers and thanks in advance, > > > > George
