Blog: 2023-09-13
qemu... at long last... even under wsl
qemu-img create -f qcow2 alpine.qcow2 16G
Then I downloaded an alpine ISO from their website, then
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -nic user,model=virtio -drive file=alpine.qcow2,media=disk,if=virtio -cdrom alpine-standard-3.18.3-x86_64.iso
Then I ran setup-alpine, shoulda got a screenshot or something. Bunch of prompts, even enabled disk encryption for my virtual disk.
Finally I ran reboot, and it booted again fine. The next time I ran the command I could "remove" the cdrom :)
sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -nic user,model=virtio -drive file=alpine.qcow2,media=disk,if=virtio
I also tried the -nographic flag, which sorta worked but at one point I got a blank screen, I guess the output of the terminal wasn't cleanly displayed and I couldn't see the prompt for password to unlock my disk, or something.
Taken from: https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/10/Getting-started-with-qemu.html
Link roll up:
https://harelang.org/tutorials/stdlib/
https://harelang.org/tutorials/introduction/
https://c9x.me/compile/code.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Ts%27o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E2fsprogs
https://slackware.nl/slackware-live/slackware64-15.0-live/
Back at it, now thinking about packaging onefetch for debian. Some work to this end is here: https://github.com/o2sh/onefetch/issues/1125
Learned about this cool directory size utility, ncdu: https://serverfault.com/questions/200949/how-can-i-find-the-biggest-directories-in-unix-ubuntu
So close to slackware... https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-iso/slackware64-15.0-iso/