arch-mkosi-boxes

Arch boxes build with mkosi, this is an work in progress project to port arch-boxes over to mkosi.

Images

Basic image

A 20GB qcow2 image with a default arch user (password arch) with password-less sudo and sshd enabled.

Cloud image

An image with by default cloud-init installed and enabled, no user or password setup.

Vagrant images

Vagrant "boxes" for the virtualbox and libvirt provider.

Development

Dependencies

• mkosi (main)
• grub
• systemd-ukify
• btrfs-progs

Building

mkdir -p vagrant/mkosi.{cache,output}
mkdir -p images/mkosi.{cache,output}

mkosi -C vagrant --profile libvirt build

Recommended mkosi.local.conf for caching build steps:

[Host]
Incremental=true
ToolsTree=default

Testing

Vagrant

Virtualbox image

vagrant box add archvirt /path/to/Arch-Linux-x86_64-virtualbox-latest.box
vagrant init archvirt
vagrant up

After the box has been booted:

vagrant ssh

To clean this up:

vagrant destroy
vagrant box remove archvirt

Libvirt image

Arch does not package the vagrant libvirt provider plugin, so the easiest way to use the container image. (Note that the podman invocation only binds a few paths into the container)

vagrant.sh box add archlibvirt /path/to/Arch-Linux-x86_64-libvirt-latest.box

The other testing steps are the same as the Virtualbox image.