Following the release of Debian Lenny, I have updated my set of Debian QEMU images. The following images are now available:
- AMD64 (Etch and Lenny)
- ARM (Etch and Lenny)
- ARMEL (Lenny)
- i386 (Etch and Lenny)
- MIPS (Etch and Lenny)
- MIPSEL (Etch and Lenny)
- PowerPC (Etch and Lenny)
- SPARC (Etch)
There is no Debian Lenny SPARC image available, as QEMU does not fully support SPARC64 yet, and Debian Lenny now only supports 64-bit kernels.
Note also that the README.txt files (which among other things contain the md5sums of the images) is now GPG signed. Read carefully these files as they contain details on how to use the images, and especially the minimum QEMU version to use.
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Where’s kfreebsd-i386? ☺
Thanks for putting up these images. A Sid or Testing image every one in a while would be handy too.
The README file recommends starting an image with ‘qemu-system-x86_64′. I believe this was an older program name and in current Qemu/kvm versions can be replaced with ‘qemu’ or ‘kvm’. Also ‘-hda’ is optional when only one disk image is used.
Thanks
As usual you are helping me a lot in my cross-platform release task.
Thanks a lot Aurelien!
http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29508#29508
Hi Aurelien,
Thanks for the images, I have a question.
I’ve been trying to install several os on my Debian Lenny + qemu+ kqemu + qemu-launcher, and always i’m experiencing the same problem.
“Everything goes fine and quick, but in any moment the install window freeze, and nothing finish, I mean, yesterday was trying to install openSuse and the install freeze en almost 90%”
What can be happening ?
any help will be apreciated
cheers,
Sergio
Sergio, you should avoid using kqemu. While it runs the guest OS faster, it clearly introduce a lot of instability.
I tried the debian_lenny_powerpc_small.qcow2 on the latest QEMU source (which works with other images), but I got this cryptic message:
VNC server running on `::1:5900′
QEMU then hung.
Thanks very much for these images. Is it possible to also provide some info on how you created them? I recently tried to install Lenny on PowerPC, but couldn’t get very far (https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/534973).
Thank you *so* much for these images. It’s been a real pain trying to install just about *any* Linux distro on QEMU ppc/arm/mips for me, and these images really saved the day.
I’d be happy to mirror them (your connection seems to degrade every now and then), feel free to contact me about that if interested.
I am having a hard time with apt-get update and upgrade for the SPARC etch image. Is there a simple solution to convince it that gzip doesn’t fail and that the keys are okay after all?
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