/make-sid

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Building Sid VBox image

This script is for building Debian GNU/Linux Sid. If you use this, change cpus, mems, createVM(), createStorage() in bootstrap.sh, tmpl/*.mustache.

Requirements

  • OS X
  • Python 2.7
  • VirtualBox

Default configuration

  • CPU: half of the phisical cpu cores.
  • Memory: half of the phisical memory size.
  • Storage: 200 GB dynamically expanding storage, and VDI format.
  • root user is enabled
  • general user creates, and it can uses sudo.
  • Partition is atomic.
  • See also tmpl/postinstall for additional Debian packages.

Usage

Execute as follow:

$ ./bootstrap.sh ``vm name``.

Clean up

kill SimpleHTTPServer process:

$ pkill -f 'python -m SimpleHTTPServer'

Delete VBox image when installing fails,:

$ VBoxManage unregistervm ``vm name`` --delete