The idea is to use debootstrap resp. apk.static to directly install debian or alpine on a
target partition or volume.
See build-base-image.sh (Debian) and build-alpine-image.sh (Alpine).
To build images:
apt install parted
To configure and run them:
apt install libvirt-daemon libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients avahi-utils
apt install racket
Add your username to the libvirt group.
Run host-setup.sh.
If you want to use personalcloud-images to hold active VM disk images, make sure it can be
accessed and written to by libvirt-qemu group:
chown :libvirt-qemu personalcloud-images
chmod g+wx personalcloud-images
This includes x-bit access to the folders leading up to personalcloud-images!
On WSL2, make sure ping is allowed to do its job:
sudo setcap cap_net_raw+p `which ping`
Start the dpkg cache by
cd dpkg-cache; ./run-transient-docker-dpkg-cache.sh
In another window,
sudo ./build-base-image.sh
If things go wrong,
sudo ./clean-failed-build.sh
(In some cases you may need to clean out the loopback devices by hand with sudo losetup -d ....)
Start the apk cache by
cd apk-cache; ./run-transient-docker-apk-cache.sh
In another window,
sudo ./build-alpine-image.sh
If things go wrong,
sudo ./clean-failed-build.sh
(In some cases you may need to clean out the loopback devices by hand with sudo losetup -d ....)