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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 fe

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

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