![]() In “Alternative method” I reference a guide which managed to installĭebian on vmm by first adding the virtio modules on the image. the installer wouldn’t see my network interface.ĭebian can be installed with the qemu method, but that’s out of scope.Opening a shell I could not find the device, the installer wouldn’t see the installation cdrom, and even when.I stopped trying with Debian distros because: In case someone (e.g., my future self) encounters them. Since along the way I solved some problems that brought me closer (but notĬlose enough) to installing other Ubuntu versions, I trace my steps here Until I found one that worked (see above). Simple enough, huh? Well, I tried so many different Ubuntu&Debian distros, edit the ISO image to support serial console installation,.The steps for installing Ubuntu or Debian are more or less as follows: Optionally, you can now remove the parameter cdrom from /etc/vm.conf. Note that this also allows X forwarding:) Launch the VM without the console: $ vmctl start ubuntu However, I’d recommend setting up an ssh server on the machine, and to Simple as that.Īfter the installation, you can start the VM with the same command. Now for the installation: $ vmctl start ubuntu -cĪnd follow the installation. Where user is replaced by your user this allows such user to start/stop/pause ![]() Vmm has a very nice configuration syntax.įor the installation, we will include the following in Note that the actual size used by the newly created disk.img isĪctually fairly low (the space is dynamically allocated): $ du -h disk.img We first create the disk where the VM will be installed. Installation steps are pretty standard and distro-independent. I henceforth refer to mini-serial.iso as image.iso. # search path for the c32 support libraries (libcom32, libutil etc.)Īppend vga=normal initrd=initrd.gz - console=ttyS0,115200n8Īppend priority=low vga=normal initrd=initrd.gz - console=ttyS0,115200n8įor the installation, we will be using the default “install” mode.įinally, create the new image, mini-serial.iso: $ xorriso -as mkisofs -r -J -joliet-long -l -cache-inodes -partition_offset 16 \ -A "Ubuntu" -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \ -boot-info-table -o mini-serial.iso. New/isolinux.cfg: # D-I config version 2.0 This mounts the ISO image read-only and copies its content into With root privileges, run: vnconfig vnd0 mini.iso įirst download the minimal installer image, mini.iso, from the link above. This requires installing xorriso (run pkg_add xorriso). We first need to enable serial console installation for the ISO image. ![]() Installation, the actual configuration and installation on vmm is Note that once the installation image is configured for serial console
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