Hi Martin, Actually the VM stuff was in Section 3 on page 13 of the Sculpt 20.02 PDF, made a mistake in my citing and the persistence discussion was in Section 4.6. Sorry
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 8:54 AM Lonnie Cumberland <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the information on this, Martin as it is helpful. > > I am working my way through the Genode manual after having gone through > the Sculpt documentation recently and little-by-little things become > clearer. > > I actually saw the part in Sculpt about making things permanent, but since > I am having troubles getting all of the components in place, in particular > with the Virtualbox setup which is referenced in Section 5 of Sculpt 20.02 > where it give you the link to follow setting up VM's ( > https://genodians.org/m-stein/2019-03-07-vm-with-sculpt-ce-preview), I > wanted to investigate the possibility of setting it up pre-configured since > the "+" component configurations are off-screen in Qemu and have already > tried to reduce the Sculpt Font sizes to small (as was recently suggested > "Nobody III" from the mailing list) in an attempt to get those components > on-screen to configure. > > Also, I have looked at changing the Qemu resolution but that did not help > as well. > > Maybe in the next iteration of Sculpt, the "+" component system could be > scrollable or movable on the Sculpt desktop so that there could be an > easier way for users to complete component selection and configurations as > the components have submenus that seem to go off-screen when expanded to > configure. > > I'll keep reading up on things to see if I can get it to work, though. > Cheers > Lonnie > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 5:25 AM Martin Stein <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Lonnie, >> >> El 11/4/20 a las 15:52, Lonnie Cumberland escribió: >> > I am particularly interested in starting up VirtualBox to see how that >> > works but with the "off screen" problem persistent to select the options >> > needed for "vm-with-sculpt-ce-preview" directions, I started to wonder >> > if it might be possible to have some type of "script" that I could add >> > in during the img/iso builds for Sculpt that would automatically select >> > and add in all of the components needed so that I could just boot up >> > this new modified img/iso and have the VirtualBox frontend GUI started >> > up by default? >> >> The sculpt manager is doing the deployment using the file >> 'config/managed/deploy'. This file always contains a complete >> description of the deployment in your runtime. See the Sculpt >> documentation [1]: >> >> "... The content of the deploy file is taken as the starting point for >> the interactive use via the + menu. All interactive changes to the >> deployment are reflected in the managed/deploy file ..." >> >> Once you used GUI and sculpt manager to populate this file with your >> individual static setup, you can make the changes permant as the Sculpt >> documentation says: >> >> "... To make it permanent, copy the current state of >> /config/managed/deploy to /<DISK>/config/<VERSION>/deploy where <DISK> >> corresponds to your Sculpt partition ..." (<VERSION> would be 20.02 here) >> >> For sub-systems that you'd like to use often with the same configuration >> but that shall not be started automatically, launchers exist: >> >> "... Additionally, the deployment can be controlled by ... and the >> so-called launchers located at the launcher/ sub directory. ... >> Launchers appear at the top level of the + menu. ..." >> >> Launchers can also be made permanent by copying them to >> /<DISK>/config/<VERSION>/launcher/<LAUNCHER_NAME>. >> >> All this is described in more detail in the documentation. >> >> However, if you really want to have your deployment shipped with the >> boot image, AFAIK, you'd have to modify the sculpt manager code to >> generate different default configs. >> >> Cheers, >> Martin >> >> [1] https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-20-02 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Genode users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users > >
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