Andreas K. Huettel from the Gentoo Linux Release Engineering team announced the start of creating experimental Gentoo disk images in QCOW2 format, which allow for a fully functional system environment ready to boot in virtual machines. The images are planned to be updated weekly, enabling their use for assessing the current state of the distribution. Previously, only installation images and Live builds for USB booting were distributed by the project.
Two versions of console environment images are available for download — a full version (1.2 GB) and a trimmed version without multilib (233 MB). By default, network services such as sshd are not started in the images, and the root password is set to an empty value. A variant for cloud environments with configuration through 'cloud-init' is also planned. To run in QEMU, you can use the command: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -m 8G -smbios type=0,uefi=on -bios /usr/share/edk2-ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd \ -smp 4 -cpu host -accel kvm -vga virtio -drive file=di.qcow2 &
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