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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ invocation. The following two invocations will give you a shell inside a qemu virtual machine of the native architecture, leaving all the settings at their defaults: - ./debvm-create && ./debvm-run + ./bin/debvm-create && ./bin/debvm-run What do I need? =============== @@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ contains the root filesystem of a (Debian) installation including an init system and a kernel. There is no partition table or bootloader. The following paths are assumed inside: * `/bin/true` is used to detect the architecture of an image - * `/vmlinuz` or `/vmlinux` (depending on the architecture) must be a symbolic - link pointing to a regular file containing the kernel. - * `/initrd.img` must be a symbolic link pointing to a regular file containing - the initrd image. + * `(|/boot)/vmlinu[xz]` must be a symbolic link pointing to a regular file + containing the kernel. + * `initrd.img` must be a symbolic link in the same directory as the kernel + image pointing to a regular file containing the initrd image. Why? ==== @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ using the one included in qemu. The other aspect is restricting to Debian-based systems. This allows for a lot of simplification of the problem space. +While most similar tools require root privileges at some point, this one works +with either fakeroot or a subuid allocation for user namespaces, which is often +available. + The implementation is so short that it still is feasible to read and understand it. Let's see how long that lasts. |