kvm

Networking in QEMU I’ve recently had a need to test UEFI booting for a disk image. I stumbled upon OVMF, a bios that will handle UEFI booting. It works pretty well but doesn’t remember its config sometimes. But that’s not why I’m writing this. In my disk image I need […]

Networking with QEMU and KVM speedup

Mon April 06, 2015 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / virtualization tagged BIOS / Fedora / Kernel-based Virtual Machine / kvm / libvirtd / qemu / ssh port / TUN/TAP / Unified Extensible Firmware Interface / virtualization

I’ve been working on building custom Debian and Ubuntu distributions for use under VirtualBox. One advantage that both have over Fedora is debootstrap. This tool allows you to create a default rootfs from pre-compiled packages inside a directory. You can then chroot into that directory to install the kernel image, […]

Debian/Ubuntu debootstrap images for VirtualBox

Fri February 27, 2015 in Fedora / Linux / Software Development / Ubuntu / virtualization tagged bootloader / Chroot / debian / debootstrap / Dpkg / Fedora / grub / kernel / kernel modules / kvm / Linux / qemu / raw disk image / ubuntu / VirtualBox / Xen

I've managed to build and boot Buildroot 2011.02 using the 2.6.32 Arago kernel and Crosstool-NG 1.8.2 with GCC 4.4.3 and uClibc 0.9.30.2. The build works just as well as the older Buildroot 2010.11 I had been using, but there is a problem with where fonts are being installed. For some […]