Fixed an issue reported by one of our users, seemed "file_data" package couldn't be installed, upon checking it seemed the checksum didn't match, a revision bump solved the issue, trick used, update Haiku sources, create an anyboot.image and boot this in #qemu on #HaikuOS. :)
How am I able to setup a new #qemu Win10-VM in #NixOS?
aqemu which I was using for years is broken in NixOS since at least one major release. It doesn't even install when I allow broken packages for a nix-shell.
qt5-virt-manager doesn't seem to have a VM setup wizard.
#qtemu is not able to find the installed qemu-img to create a new virtual disk ("Ensure that you have installed qemu-img in your system and it's available").
#Podman on macOS seems to work fairly well a lot of the time. I keep running into scenarios where #QEMU totally eats itself, though, and I have to recreate a machine from scratch. Wondering if this is all Apple silicon or just the new M3 that I have.
:boost_requested: :boost_animated: :boost_ok: #FollowerPower: Anyone with #Linux - #boot|ing #KnowHow able and willing to take a look why my current build of OS/1337 doesn't boot?
It's a 1440kB 3,5" #Floppy image and should work just fine in #VirtualBox / #QEMU / #KVM / #vmware but it's stuck after loading #Linux (bzImage) and the remaining files (rootfs.cpio.xz)...
Last I tried screwing around with #zfs, #KVM and #qemu on #slackware I had a bunch of fun with scripts from sbo and dependency hell – since neither is an official slack package.
How does this fare in 2024 if I were to try to get a headless host for my stuff (qubes-like but I like pain)?
There's a vision in my mind for workflow that involves VMs and GPU passthrough. The idea is to have a stable foundation (e.g. Debian) and spring off various VMs as seen in the chart
Arch for proton gaming.
Ubuntu for work.
Windows for audio and non-proton games.
NixOS for anything else.
I wish I could use NixOS for the base but I am unable to find much documentation for #VFIO. The most promising one are
I wonder if #Linux has some kind of minimal #qemu and/or #KataContainers way to run x86 applications on an #ARM host, similar to Rosetta for MacOS or the similar WIP Microsoft compatibility.
It's the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, and I'm ringing in summer the traditional way: holed up in my basement home office, reacquainting myself with Qemu by creating a bunch of virtual machines.
Setting up the company provided Macbook pro M2 with @AsahiLinux for Linux engineering/support/development.
The M2 is aarch64, deployment of a virtualized aarch64 Linux guest takes 160 seconds.
Thanks to #qemu, also emulation of x86 is possible! Deployment of a x86 Linux guest takes 900seconds, quite reasonable considering all is emulated.
Not gonna lie, the most useful skill I picked up in the last two months was setting up a #QEMU install to test my custom kernels (and some made up hardware on the side).
If you want to be as punk as that, I have the instructions right here:
Impressed by how easy it is to run a virtualized MacOS Ventura on Linux with quickemu! I tried some other MacOS virtual machines or Docker images, but none has worked so easily and immediate as with quickemu.
I now have my Framework laptop running Fedora. I have KVM installed and Proxmox is installed in KVM with nested virtualization enabled on the host. I'm now running a restored VM from a Proxmox backup.
I had to do a bit of data juggling with my external NVMe SSD to import the backup to the correct location to enable me to restore within the Proxmox VM. I also had some initial issues getting the target guest VM to run but I noticed I had my vCPU allocation a bit too high. After adjusting this and removing an additional vNIC and Audio virtual device for Spice, I was able to get it to run.
I'll have to figure out the best way to get data portability of these VMs. Ideally if I could determine how the vma format works that Proxmox uses for backup maybe I can skip the Proxmox VM and load the guest VM directly into KVM on my Framework host.
Or better yet if I can leverage LVM snapshotting and save out a volume of the entire VM then load that directly into KVM/QEMU on the laptop that would be nice.
I've been making my Quickemu project macOS-compatible; meaning it can run on a macOS host 🍎
Quickemu is a project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, macOS and Windows virtual machines 👍
Here's my test case in action:
This is NixOS ❄️ running a virtual machine of macOS Ventura 🍏 via Quickemu, which is running a virtual machine of Aline Linux 🐧 via Quickemu #linux#qemu