Tag: Virtualization

Setup the Packer Environment Prequisites The packer executable found in the download for your system at https://www.packer.io/ (Download button) needs to be in a directory that is in your PATH.

Setup the Packer Environment Prequisites The packer executable found in the download for your system at https://www.packer.io (Download button) needs to be in a directory that is in your PATH.

Option 1: Use the Image Directly (not recommended) Upload packer image using virsh ls -al *.qcow2 virsh -c qemu+ssh://user@host/system vol-upload --pool default --vol preseeded-armhf-uefi-image-preseed-image-xxxx-xx-xx-xx-xx.qcow2 --file preseeded-armhf-uefi-image-preseed-image-xxxx-xx-xx-xx-xx.

The Ubuntu cloud images on Hyper-V page now details how to use Packer to build a local Hyper-V compatible Ubuntu Cloud image when starting with a generic Ubuntu Cloud image (because the Azure/Hyper-V images only use an Azure datasource for cloud-init, and are therefore not usable on local Hyper-V).

Several new posts and updates.

This method of compiling for armel (e.g. ARMv5, earlier, and some ARMv6) uses pbuilder in an ARM hardFloat VM

Option 1: Use the Image Directly (not recommended) Upload kernel, initrd, and packer image using virsh ls -al vmlinuz* initrd.gz* *.qcow2 virsh -c qemu+ssh://user@host/system vol-create-as --pool default --name vmlinuz-x.