Alpine Qemu Image

This project can be used to create bootable x86_64 Qemu images based on Alpine Linux. To achive this https://www.packer.io and some shell scripts are used. On Debian/Ubuntu or Linu Mint systems, run:

~$ sudo apt install packer qemu-system-x86

To create images/alpine-313.qcow with a scrambled root password and an SSH key based on your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, run:

~$ git clone https://github.com/troglobit/alpine-qemu-image.git
~$ cd alpine-qemu-image/
~/alpine-qemu-image$ ./build

To create the same image with the root password secret, run:

~/alpine-qemu-image$ packer build -force packer.json

On Linux systems you can give the resulting image a test drive, run:

~/alpine-qemu-image$ ./run

Origin & References

This project is based on startling/alpine-kernel-dev, changes to the original include updating to Alpine Linux 3.13.1 and build fixes for Linux host systems.

The sole purpose is to provide ready-made Qemu images for projects like the awesome wkz/qeneth :-)