Providing graphical lima example #1002
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Here is one example of a customized instance (of this template), where I added a background image (jammy) and a bottom panel:
Configured as per documentation: http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Autostart https://aanatoly.github.io/fbpanel/docs.html Alternatively: https://ice-wm.org/manual/ |
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The xfce variant would look something like this:
It can be installed as the "xubuntu-desktop" task. |
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I am new to lima virtualization framework and I wanted to thank you for making such a great piece of software. My device is: and the target would be something like: Appreciate any help. |
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I managed to succesfully create a graphical instance of almalinux using the lima-GUI tool (via the quick creator) by selecting qemu, x86_64 and video = default. Unfortunately using the cli did not work. This is what I tried:
the output i get form the last one: this is what i see in the display:
and here is the content of the file ha.stderr.log: the same is true if I use another template such a rocky-9 and since there are |
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You can edit the yaml file directly, if you can't get the yq (or flags) to work There should examples in the default.yaml |
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Thanks for your reply. # This template requires Lima v0.11.1 or later.
images:
- location: "https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9.5/images/x86_64/Rocky-9-GenericCloud-Base-9.5-20241118.0.x86_64.qcow2"
arch: "x86_64"
digest: "sha256:069493fdc807300a22176540e9171fcff2227a92b40a7985a0c1c9e21aeebf57"
# No 20240609.1 for aarch64
- location: "https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9.5/images/aarch64/Rocky-9-GenericCloud-Base-9.5-20241118.0.aarch64.qcow2"
arch: "aarch64"
digest: "sha256:5443bcc0507fadc3d7bd3e8d266135ab8db6966c703216933f824164fd3252f1"
# Fallback to the latest release image.
# Hint: run `limactl prune` to invalidate the cache
- location: "https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/images/x86_64/Rocky-9-GenericCloud.latest.x86_64.qcow2"
arch: "x86_64"
- location: "https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/images/aarch64/Rocky-9-GenericCloud.latest.aarch64.qcow2"
arch: "aarch64"
mountTypesUnsupported: ["9p"]
mounts:
- location: "~"
- location: "/tmp/lima"
writable: true
arch: x86_64
memory: 12GiB
disk: 64GiB
video:
display: defaultunfortunately still hang on the installation process at the step: and this is the result from the serial.log file |
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for comparison this is the yaml template that I see when I check to inspect the graphical almalinux instance that did work: images:
- location: "https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.21/releases/cloud/nocloud_alpine-3.21.2-x86_64-uefi-cloudinit-r0.qcow2"
arch: "x86_64"
digest: "sha512:1aaf22b4a584e69e228e6aa38a295159c0143d9ccebe7ad4928e92b414714066af3bfe5f9e0ca4d4d64a70ca9fea09033af90258a6f2344130d70b660151127a"
- location: "https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.21/releases/cloud/nocloud_alpine-3.21.2-aarch64-uefi-cloudinit-r0.qcow2"
arch: "aarch64"
digest: "sha512:08d340126b222abae651a20aa63c3ee3dc601d703de7879d2a6bc1fe82a3664d058a2c55ad0cf8a874327f7535e3af8a9384ce438217d6f32200cad1462a5b32"
mounts:
- location: "~"
- location: "/tmp/lima"
writable: true
# The built-in containerd installer does not support Alpine currently.
containerd:
system: false
user: false
vmType: qemu
arch: x86_64
memory: 12GiB
disk: 64GiB
video:
display: default |
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The issues with CPU type was mentioned in fairly recent issue, can't use "qemu64" for RHEL since it is only v1 - and not v2/v3 cpuType:
x86_64: "max" |
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I was doing an example file for graphical login, that is when you run qemu with a display...
But it seems a bit much to run ubuntu-desktop (gnome), or even alpine (historically: xfce)
What would be relevant to show here ? The target user pretty much only wants "xterm".
I was thinking of something like openbox or icewm, similar to the Tiny Core Linux desktop.
http://tinycorelinux.net/screenshots.html
(why TCL? docker-machine was using it)
The default setup just shows a black window (640x480), waiting for the user to right-click on it:
Then there was also the question of password, or "how to log in"...
Contemplated adding
xdmto it, but it doesn't do auto-login anyway.Using
gdmis very bloated, andlightdmdidn't work (for some reason)The current workaround was
passwdfrom shell, andstartxfrom console.Here was the base config:
Idea was just to have an example, a simple "desktop" with a session (and xterm!)
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