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Mozilla Linux Reference Platform under KVM Sun, Jan 6. 2008


Ben Hearsum released RC1 of an VMware machine image containg the Mozilla CentOS reference platform. If you're using KVM instead of VMware, you can easily convert the image (tested under Fedora 8):

unzip CentOS5-ReferencePlatform-rc1.zip

cd CentOS-5.0-ref-tools-vm-rc1/

for NAME in CentOS-5.0-ref-tools-vm*-s???.vmdk ; do echo Converting $NAME ; qemu-img convert -f vmdk $NAME -O raw ${NAME/vmdk/raw} ; done

mkdir -p /var/kvm/images/

for NAME in CentOS-5.0-ref-tools-vm-s???.raw ; do echo Concatenating $NAME ; cat $NAME >>/var/kvm/images/CentOS-5.0-ref-tools-disk1.img ; done

for NAME in CentOS-5.0-ref-tools-vm_1-s???.raw ; do echo Concatenating $NAME ; cat $NAME >>/var/kvm/images/CentOS-5.0-ref-tools-disk2.img ; done

echo "<domain type='kvm'>
<name>CentOS5-ReferencePlatform-rc1</name>
<uuid>b48947dc-1531-8869-9c5e-797dae9a9d9d</uuid>
<memory>804864</memory>
<currentMemory>804864</currentMemory>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<os>
<type>hvm</type>
<boot dev='hd'/>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/>
</features>
<clock offset='utc'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<source file='/var/kvm/images/CentOS-5.0-ref-tools-disk1.img'/>
<target dev='hda'/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<source file='/var/kvm/images/CentOS-5.0-ref-tools-disk2.img'/>
<target dev='hdc'/>
</disk>
<interface type='network'>
<mac address='00:16:3e:0d:d1:cd'/>
<source network='default'/>
</interface>
<input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' listen='127.0.0.1'/>
</devices>
</domain>" >/tmp/CentOS.xml

virsh define /tmp/CentOS.xml

L=$(losetup -f -v /var/kvm/images/CentOS-5.0-ref-tools-disk1.img|cut -d" " -f4)

kpartx -a $L

mkdir /tmp/d1p1

mount /dev/mapper/$(basename $L)p1 /tmp/d1p1

perl -p -i -e "s/sdb1/hdc1/" /tmp/d1p1/etc/fstab

umount /tmp/d1p1

kpartx -d $L

losetup -d $L

virsh start CentOS5-ReferencePlatform-rc1

You can connect to the reference image using vncviewer on display 0 (the IP address will depend on your DHCP setup).
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