On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Michael Vogt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > a quick followup with some suggestions how to improve the user > experience when working with the amd64 and pi2 images. > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 11:50:54PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: > [..] > > The images are bootable, the pc image can be booted directly in > > qemu-kvm or virtualenv. > > Some more details about running the images inside qemu-kvm. > > When running the images in qemu-kvm it is helpful to use the "-redir" > feature of qemu-kvm. E.g.: > > $ kvm -m 1500 -redir tcp:10022::22 ubuntu-core-16-amd64.img > > The message from console-conf is a bit misleading in this setup. It > will say "ssh [email protected]". However due to the way that qemu-kvm > user networking works, you will actually have to run: > > $ ssh -p 10022 USER@localhost > > to ssh into the images. We should probably include it in the > instructions for images on snapcraft.io. > I think this is a great idea. I think it'd be very useful to have this information on snapcraft.io, or at the very least to start a wiki page with this info. > > > The pi2 image can be written to a sdcard via: > > > > unxz ubuntu-core-16-pc.img.xz > > dd if= ubuntu-core-16-pc.img of=/dev/sdXX > > > > Where /dev/sdXX is the path of your sd card. > [..] > > An alternative way to write the image is to use "go-dd": > > $ sudo snap install --devmode --beta godd > $ sudo /snap/bin/godd ubuntu-core-16-pi2.img > [this will print a message what devices are removable] > > $ sudo /snap/bin/godd ubuntu-core-16-pi2.img /dev/sdXX > > The advantage of godd is that it will not write to devices that are > still mounted and that it can help detecting what removable devices > are available (and it shows a progressbar). > > Cheers, > Michael > > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/snapcraft >
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