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This creates a Debian based Tinkerbell Operating System Installation Environment (OSIE).

this is a WIP and this repository will be rebased

Usage

Install the Base Debian Vagrant Box.

Run vagrant up builder --no-destroy-on-error to build the tinkerbell-debian-osie-amd64.iso file.

Run vagrant up bios to boot the generated ISO in BIOS mode.

Run vagrant up uefi to boot the generated ISO in UEFI mode.

The default user and password are osie.

To build the arm64 architecture image, set the LB_BUILD_ARCH environment variable to arm64 before launching vagrant, e.g. LB_BUILD_ARCH=arm64 vagrant up builder. To execute this image in an emulated virtual machine see the qemu arm64 emulation section.

NB Building the arm64 image takes longer than the native amd64. In my machine it takes about 40m (vs 10m for amd64).

qemu arm64 emulation

The arm64 architecture image can be executed in an emulated virtual machine as:

# NB in my humble machine (i3-3245) emulating arm64 is very slow and it takes
#    several minutes until you can login.
# NB in the qemu window use the "View" menu to switch between the
#    virtio-gpu-pci and serial0 console.
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
sudo apt-get install -y qemu-efi-aarch64
cp /usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_CODE.fd firmware-code-arm64.fd
cp /usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_VARS.fd firmware-vars-arm64.fd
qemu-img create -f qcow2 hd0.img 20G
qemu-img info hd0.img
qemu-system-aarch64 \
  -name arm64 \
  -machine virt \
  --accel tcg,thread=multi \
  -cpu cortex-a57 \
  -smp cores=4 \
  -m 2g \
  -k pt \
  -device virtio-gpu-pci \
  -device nec-usb-xhci,id=usb0 \
  -device usb-kbd,bus=usb0.0 \
  -device usb-tablet,bus=usb0.0 \
  -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 \
  -drive if=pflash,file=firmware-code-arm64.fd,format=raw,readonly \
  -drive if=pflash,file=firmware-vars-arm64.fd,format=raw \
  -drive if=none,file=hd0.img,discard=unmap,cache=unsafe,id=hd0 \
  -drive if=none,file=$PWD/../tinkerbell-debian-osie-arm64.iso,media=cdrom,cache=unsafe,readonly,id=cd0 \
  -device scsi-hd,drive=hd0,bus=scsi0.0,bootindex=1 \
  -device scsi-cd,drive=cd0,bus=scsi0.0,bootindex=2 \
  -netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 \
  -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 \
  -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=rng0 \
  -object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 \
  -qmp unix:arm64.socket,server,nowait
echo info qtree | qmp-shell -H arm64.socket
ssh vagrant@localhost -p 2222

Reference

• rgl/debian-live-builder-vagrant
• Live Systems Manual
• lb(1)
• live-build(7)
• lb_config(1)
• Debian Live Team Repositories
• Debian Live Wiki: Information about the Debian Live team and its contacts.
• run emulated arm under qemu