[Freedombox-discuss] Building Freedombox to run under KVM
Tim Retout
tim at retout.co.uk
Tue Aug 20 20:47:50 UTC 2013
Hi all,
Recently I have been checking out freedom-maker.
I don't have a Dreamplug, and I'm not a fan of Virtualbox. :) It
seems that Debian's virtualbox package was moved into "contrib" before
wheezy, because it needs a proprietary compiler to build the BIOS
firmware.
Anyway, it is easy to build an image that's usable by KVM - I removed
the "virtualbox" entry from the $(STAMP)-vbox-predepend Makefile
target, and ignored the failure of the VBoxManage command at the end
of mk_virtualbox_image. In other words, just type "make
virtualbox-image" and hack it until it works.
This produces a 7.5GB .img file which can be imported in virt-manager.
I think it would be possible to use qemu-img to convert it to a
smaller format.
So, this makes me think that I should split out the VM image
generation in the Makefile, and create a new KVM target.
Kind regards,
--
Tim Retout <tim at retout.co.uk>
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