[Fwd: Ubuntu Core 16 beta images available]

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Do, 2016-09-08 at 16:56 +0300, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I tried the instructions at https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/st
> art/
> in order to get the new Beta images at
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-snappy/16.04/current/
> to work on locally on KVM on Linux.

well, that will only start to work once the series 16 images are
actually released, until then the website will keep point to the
official 15.04 release indeed :)
 
these images are betas ...

> 
> Two issues:
> 
> 1. The command to start kvm should better be like
> 
> kvm -m 512M -redir :8090::80 -redir :8022::22 -drive
> format=raw,file=ubuntu-core-16-amd64.img
> 
> (instead of  kvm -m 512 -redir :8090::80 -redir :8022::22
> ubuntu-15.04-snappy-amd64-generic.img
> which causes the warning:
> 
> WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'ubuntu-core-16-
> amd64.img'
> and probing guessed raw.
>          Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw
> images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
>          Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the
> restrictions.)
> 
well, nothing will ever write on block 0 i hope :) 
but yeah, that is a valid concern, please file a bug ...


> In addition, I think it is better to specify M in "512M".

same thing, please file bugs :)

> 
> 2. Once you configure Ubuntu Core and supply your launchpad email
> address
> (required so that it can retrieve your SSH public key and install
> into
> the running image),
> it suggests to
>             ssh -p 8022 myusername at 10.0.2.15
> The instructions at the Snappy Start suggest to
>            ssh -p 8022 ubuntu at localhost
> (mentions that "ubuntu/ubuntu" is a hard-coded account in earlier
> Ubuntu Core images).
> 
> What works with Ubuntu Core 16.04 Beta is
>            ssh -p 8022 myusername at localhost
> (where "myusername" is the Launchpad username. You got it right it
> https://launchpad.net/~myusername is your personal Launchpad page).

definitely also worth a bug report (though it might be tricky to detect
from within kvm that you are running inside kvm and conditionally
change the default message here)...

> 
> All accounts on the Ubuntu Core 16.04 Beta image are locked, so it is
> not possible to log in through the qemu log in screen straight away.

this is on purpose ... (you can indeed log in via ssh and use "passwd"
to set a password for the account) 

...
> > Enjoy the fresh images! If you find any bugs or issues, please let
> > us
> > know via:
> > 
> >     https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >  Michael (on behalf of the snappy team)
> > 

ciao
	oli
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