Andreas K. Huettel from the Gentoo Linux Release Engineering team announced the start of generating experimental Gentoo disk images in QCOW2 format, which will allow you to get a fully working system environment ready to boot in virtual machines. The images are planned to be updated every week, which will allow you to use them to evaluate the current state of the distribution. Previously, the project distributed only 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 &
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