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QEMU Advent Calendar 2014

119 points by stevekemp 12y ago

michaelsbradley 12y ago
For those unfamiliar with the season of Advent: http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Advent http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Advent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent
stefanha 12y ago
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.
- 4ad 12y ago
  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 12y ago
    Thanks!
- voltagex_ 12y ago
  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 12y ago
    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/ 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_ 12y ago
      Is there an IRC channel I can hang out in for this project?
      - stefanha 12y ago
        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/msg02592.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-10/msg025...
- agumonkey 12y ago
  Amazing, simply amazing.
- joeyh 12y ago
  I'm loving it, and I'm sure it's led to many happy conversations like this one: https://identi.ca/joeyh/note/-715nLEDSr2lhx3ZNQO1vw https://identi.ca/joeyh/note/-715nLEDSr2lhx3ZNQO1vw
ac29 12y ago
Any chance you can add a RSS feed so we can follow the updates?
- stefanha 12y ago
  http://qemu-advent-calendar.org/feed.rss http://qemu-advent-calendar.org/feed.rss (Still populating the feed but you can already subscribe.)
e12e 12y ago
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 12y ago
  Tom's rescue boot disk is what I remember as essential for system administrators for some time... http://www.toms.net/rb/ 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/ 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/1iF0BQtIdQ3hPXUAlwfpg9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink 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-5TY9xNMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DPVXIuWlDKTSEan-5TY9xN...
erkose 12y ago
How about a boot to guile day? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-02/msg00131.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-02/msg001...
- stefanha 12y ago
  Thanks, I've taken note of the link!

119 points by stevekemp 12y ago

For those unfamiliar with the season of Advent: http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Advent http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Advent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent

stefanha 12y ago

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.

4ad 12y ago
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 12y ago
  Thanks!
voltagex_ 12y ago
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 12y ago
  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/ 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_ 12y ago
    Is there an IRC channel I can hang out in for this project?
    - stefanha 12y ago
      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/msg02592.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-10/msg025...
agumonkey 12y ago
Amazing, simply amazing.
joeyh 12y ago
I'm loving it, and I'm sure it's led to many happy conversations like this one: https://identi.ca/joeyh/note/-715nLEDSr2lhx3ZNQO1vw https://identi.ca/joeyh/note/-715nLEDSr2lhx3ZNQO1vw

ac29 12y ago

Any chance you can add a RSS feed so we can follow the updates?

stefanha 12y ago
http://qemu-advent-calendar.org/feed.rss http://qemu-advent-calendar.org/feed.rss (Still populating the feed but you can already subscribe.)

e12e 12y ago

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 12y ago
Tom's rescue boot disk is what I remember as essential for system administrators for some time... http://www.toms.net/rb/ 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/ 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/1iF0BQtIdQ3hPXUAlwfpg9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink 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-5TY9xNMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DPVXIuWlDKTSEan-5TY9xN...

erkose 12y ago

How about a boot to guile day? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-02/msg00131.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-02/msg001...

stefanha 12y ago
Thanks, I've taken note of the link!