QEMU Advent Calendar 2014

119 points Dec 7, 2014

16 comments stevekemp qemu-advent-calendar.org

stefanha Dec 7, 2014

Hi, I run the QEMU Advent Calendar and hope you enjoy the images that the QEMU community has put together for your holiday season enjoyment.

We still have a few slots free so if you have a cool disk image to contribute, get in touch! stefanha at gmail com

Rules: Must be freely distributable (e.g. open source). Small image size is appreciated.

joeyh Dec 8, 2014

I'm loving it, and I'm sure it's led to many happy conversations like this one: https://identi.ca/joeyh/note/-715nLEDSr2lhx3ZNQO1vw

4ad Dec 7, 2014

Wow, this is really good stuff. I've seen advent calendars of other open source project, but this trumps them all, in my opinion. Congrats!

stefanha Dec 7, 2014

Thanks!

voltagex_ Dec 7, 2014

I love this kind of computer archaeology (for lack of a better term). Do you have any instructions on how to build the images from the ground up? Finding the right install images and packages for say, Debian 0.93 can be quite a challenge.

stefanha Dec 7, 2014

An early Debian image would be very cool. The Slackware 1.01 download is actually still available at http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-1.01/.

Gerd, who put together the image, had to find the right emulated hardware that the old kernel knows how to talk to. It doesn't know about PCI devices (!!) so only ISA devices will work :).

voltagex_ Dec 8, 2014

Is there an IRC channel I can hang out in for this project?

stefanha Dec 8, 2014

There hasn't been much conversation on the #qemu irc.oftc.net channel about the advent calendar, but that's the channel.

For the most part I send out an email to the QEMU mailing list before December and folks have been emailing me images: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-10/msg025...

agumonkey Dec 7, 2014

Amazing, simply amazing.

erkose Dec 8, 2014

How about a boot to guile day? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-02/msg001...

stefanha Dec 8, 2014

Thanks, I've taken note of the link!

e12e Dec 8, 2014

How bizarre that the Slack image is 30 MB (compressed!). I suppose it really is a full system. I'm sure there must be some of those old Linux images out there that managed to fit both the kernel and the initial ram disk on a single 1.44 MB floppy ?

cnvogel Dec 8, 2014

Tom's rescue boot disk is what I remember as essential for system administrators for some time... http://www.toms.net/rb/ (1.7 MB floppy), but I can't find a working download.

But tux.org has "pocketlinux", which seems to be similar. http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions/tinylinux/pocket-linux/, with a 1.44MB download. (in Virtualbox add a Floppy controller, rename floppy image to ".img")

Here's a screenshot: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/1iF0BQtIdQ3hPXUAlwfpg9...

EDIT: OF COURSE I should have used Qemu for the screenshot: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DPVXIuWlDKTSEan-5TY9xN...