A good old image created from scratch I would run with qemu and a tap device. Guess what it was? Virtual Machines.Īt first it was only one. Until, well, I run into the limitations of chroots: can't really simulate networking, can't run two processes on port 80, can't run different kernels (or OSes), and don't really help if you need to work on something boot related or that has to do with userspace and kernel interactions. This was fun for a while and worked quite well: I became good friend with with rsync, debootstrap, mount -rbind and sometimes even pivot_root, and I was happy. In each such environment, install all the needed tools, libraries, services, anything that was needed for my crazy experiments. The idea was simple: always develop on my laptop, but create a self contained environment for each project. My first approach at sorting this mess out were chroots. If this never happened to you, don't worry: it will happen, one day or another. Your PATH is clogged with half finished scripts and tools you don't even remember what they are for.

For more details on this process refer to the following blog.If you like hacking and have a few machines you use for development, chances are your system has becomeĪt least once in your lifetime a giant meatball of services running for who knows what reason, and

The versions are determined through a careful process where the team weighs new upstream release features, schedules, and bug fixes. PMEM and virtual nvdimms are available for general usageĮach release the Canonical team takes great care in considering what versions of QEMU and libvirt to include.Increased speed of migrations via free page hinting through virtio-balloon.Migration from SDL to GTK based UI backend to improve scaling and speed.As systems grow larger and larger QEMU guests can now create x86 guests with memory footprints as large as 8TB.This combination allows for a much faster boot of Linux on x86 platforms. Included in QEMU are the qboot ROM, the microvm machine type, and a minimized QEMU build.These new versions have brought a number of key updates to the virtualization stack. In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), users can find the recently released QEMU version 4.2 and libvirt version 6.0 available on day one.

Canonical takes pride in offering the latest virtualization stack with each Ubuntu release. Many launched right on top of Ubuntu itself. Every day millions of Ubuntu instances are launched in private and public clouds around the world. Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for cloud hosts and guests. This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog

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