This playbook will set up an Uberspace to host a Windows 3.11 VM running a web server on port 80 and make it available behind a per-user NGINX service. QEMU will be used for virtualization.
You will need to provide your own HDD image for the VM. It’s not included here, but the playbook will upload it for you if you specify the path.
ansible-playbook site.yml
This will prompt for the path to c.img (the HDD image for the VM). Alternatively, you can specify the path on the command-line to avoid the prompt:
ansible-playbook site.yml -e 'local_drive_c_img="/Users/aaron/Documents/Projekte/2020/Windows 3.11 Webserver/Image/c.img"'
Note: The single quotes are only required if your path contains spaces.
Establish SSH tunnel to Uberspace (assuming your Uberspace is win311.example.com):
ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 win311.example.com
Then use a local VNC client to connect to localhost:5901. On macOS, this works with RealVNC (VNC Viewer.app), but not with the integrated screen sharing app.
Warning: The mouse cursor won’t work properly—but with some practicing, you can manage. For newer operating systems, this can be fixed by adding -usbdevice tablet to the QEMU command line, but this requires USB support in the guest which Windows 3.11 obviously doesn’t have.
Use this for comitting changes to c.img. By default, changes are discarded on exit (snapshot mode).
ssh -L 4444:localhost:4444 win311.example.com
Then locally:
telnet localhost 4444
commit ide0-hd0
Download image:
scp win311.example.cc:win311/c.img .