So far the console in OpenStack (or Brightbox which shares the image)
was not usable well until one issues a reboot to add the autologin in
the GRUB menu.
Add it by default so that one doesn't need this reboot trick.
The GitHub Action artifacts are compressed zip files which include
bz2 files which are either the raw .bin images that have many zero bytes
in the rootfs but the main data in /usr is using zstd compression, or
they are the qcow2 .img images which are compressed themselves (and of
course have the same /usr compression). The bz2 compression doesn't help
in our case.
Remove the bz2 compression layer. If in the future non-zip artifacts
are supported we can add it back for the .bin image only by using
explicit calls only for that file instead of the
--image_compression_formats= flag for all images.
The qemu and qemu_uefi_secure images have the same contents as the
qemu_uefi image which wastes space on the release server. A similar
case is the PXE vmlinuz which is the same as the regular one, too.
Set up symlinks for same images, and also detect this when compressing
to set up symlinks there as well. To reduce complexity, the qemu and
qemu_uefi_secure images are not supported anymore and the Jenkins or
GitHub CI will skip over them if specified. Users that build their own
images need to adapt, though.
Add support for Gen 2 Hyper-V VMs.
`./image_to_vm` tool has now a new supported format: `hyperv_vhdx`,
that produces .vhdx dynamic disks.
How to use:
```bash
./image_to_vm.sh --from ../build/images/amd64-usr/developer-latest/ --format hyperv_vhdx
```
See: https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/issues/1009
Uses PR: https://github.com/flatcar/bootengine/pull/92
Signed-off-by: Adrian Vladu <avladu@cloudbasesolutions.com>
With the PXE script it is easy to boot different versions from one
folder without any copies because the kernel and PXE initrd are always
"fresh".
Instead of only supporting hardcoded file names, support parameters for
the kernel and initrd file to be used.
The qemu UEFI and regular qemu script only differ by having a default
value for the firmware. If one tries to switch between different
firmwares one normally would modify the script.
Make it easier to switch boot modes and use custom firmwares by
supporting a flag to set the pflash contents.
For testing TPM2-backed rootfs encryption it is handy to have a software
TPM option for the qemu script.
Add a flag for a software TPM with swtpm like kola also does. The user
has to specify a folder for the secret state and this won't be removed
because the same store should be able to be passed when booting the VM
again after shutdown.
While Flatcar itself runs fine with 1 GB, many workloads do not and
having to debug this is time consuming when one forgets to bump the VM
memory, e.g., in the Qemu script.
Default to 2 GB as known-good setting for things like Kubernetes or
setting up LUKS devices.
When testing multiple images one always has to copy them to the
expected file name, and when trying to run two VMs this means one needs
to either use separate directories or modify the qemu script. One also
needs to modify the qemu script to bump the memory for K8s or for LUKS.
Support parameters for the VM image name and the VM memory.
The ACI OEM container image was used with rkt for GCE. For long time
this has been migrated to systemd-nspawn and now systemd-sysext.
Remove the unused build library code.
