Flashing base images (QEMU)#
There is no need to flash the image for QEMU platform. We suggest using libvirt for this.
If you haven’t installed QEMU yet, please install the following packages
$ sudo apt install qemu-system libvirt-daemon-system virtinst virt-viewer
$ sudo yum install qemu-kvm libvirt virt-install virt-viewer
Setup#
To fully enable QEMU, please perform the following operations.
Add user to libvirt group:
$ sudo adduser $USER libvirt
Start default network if not already started:
$ sudo virsh net-list --all
$ sudo virsh net-start default # only if network 'default' is inactive
Grant user libvirt-qemu the right access permissions:
$ sudo setfacl -m u:libvirt-qemu:r-x ${BUILD_DIR}/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64
After this, a logout out of your current user session is required.
How to create the VM#
Extract the QEMU libvirt bundle that can be found in our Base image downloads section.
Note
Another option is to use scotty to build simplecore-simpleswitch-os-image, a console
only image, or simplecore-simpleswitch-os-weston-image, a graphic image and create
your own bundle, as documented in our libvirt VM bundle tool section.
$ mkdir my_vm
$ tar -xf simplecore-simpleswitch-os-image_bundle.tar.bz2 -C my_vm
$ cd my_vm && ./vm_create.sh
$ mkdir my_vm
$ tar -xf simplecore-simpleswitch-os-weston-image_bundle.tar.bz2 -C my_vm
$ cd my_vm && ./vm_create.sh
Note
One can pass option -s to vm_create.sh in order to create a shared folder <image_name>_apps/
between the QEMU VM and the host. This folder can be used to deploy SimpleSwitch™ containers on the QEMU VM.