[Fwd: Ubuntu Core 16 beta images available]

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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 :)
>

Where should these reports be filed at?

I could not find the source location of the page
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/

The closest was this one (for the new 16.04),
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~developer-ubuntu-com-dev/developer-ubuntu-com/stable/view/head:/md_importer/tests/data/website-test/out/get-started/as-dev/16.04/step2-setup-kvm-ubuntu.md

There is the old and active repository at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/developer-ubuntu-com

There is also the new but not yet active repository on github,
https://github.com/ubuntudesign/developer.ubuntu.com/issues

>>
>> 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)...
>

Here is the report,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1621550

>>
>> 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)
>

I believe there will be some new users that will not notice this.
An option is to say so on the final page of the installation.

Simos

> ...
>> > 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