On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 at 15:44, Nico Boehr <n...@linux.ibm.com> wrote: > > Quoting Peter Maydell (2024-08-29 15:35:30) > > On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 at 14:26, Nico Boehr <n...@linux.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > > > Quoting Peter Maydell (2024-08-29 15:09:44) > > > > Thanks. I tried this repro, but mkosi falls over almost > > > > immediately: > > > > > In the meantime, looks like mkosi is trying to create an block image, but > > > that's not what it's configured to do; are you sure mkosi.conf is in the > > > same directory you're calling it from? > > > > It is. I notice however that the manpage for mkosi > > says that it looks for "mkosi.default", not "mkosi.conf". > > Maybe it needs a newer mkosi than Ubuntu ships? > > (mkosi --version says "mkosi 12".) > > Likely. I have mkosi 22 here. > > > I'll use the images Cédric has kindly generated. > > Thanks, images by Cédric look good, but I forgot to tell you that > you need a SSH key for login too :) > > You could unpack image.cpio.gz, add your key to root/.ssh and repack the > whole thing to image.new.xz: > - mkdir xtract && cd xtract > - unxz < ../image.cpio.xz | cpio -H newc -iv > - cp ~/.ssh/authorized_keys root/.ssh/ > - find . 2>/dev/null | cpio -o -c -R root:root | xz -9 --format=lzma > > ../image.new.xz
Thanks, I was just wondering how to get the ssh key into there. I found I needed ... cpio -H newc -o -R root:root | xz -9 -C crc32 when creating the new image, otherwise the kernel doesn't like the format. (Also since I'm not root I needed to sprinkle in some sudo invocations.) -- PMM
