Andreas K. Huettel from the Gentoo release team Linux (Release Engineering team) announced the start of generating experimental Gentoo disk images in QCOW2 format, which provide a fully working system environment ready for booting in virtual machines. The images are planned to be updated weekly, allowing them to be used to evaluate the current state of the distribution. Previously, the project only distributed installation images and a live build for booting from USB devices.
Two versions of the images with a console environment are available for download: a full version (1.2 GB) and a stripped-down version without multilib (233 MB). By default, network services such as sshd are not launched in the images, and the root password is set to empty. A build version for cloud environments configured via "cloud-init" is planned for the future. To run in QEMU, 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 sq -vga virtio -drive file=di.qcow2 &
Source: opennet.ru
