[Qemu-devel] Help wanted: QEMU Advent Calendar 2016

[Qemu-devel] Help wanted: QEMU Advent Calendar 2016

[Thomas Huth]

 Hi all!

This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of KVM [1] (and the
25th anniversary of Linux), so to contribute to this celebration, we
would like to reanimate the QEMU Advent Calendar.

If you didn't see the previous QEMU Advent Calendar 2014 yet, have a look at

  http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/

This year, too, the QEMU Advent Calendar 2016 will be a website that
reveals a new disk image for download each day in December until the
holiday season starts. Launching the disk image under QEMU will bring up
a nice surprise!

But to be able to make this happen, we need help from people who
- have ideas for disk images
- would like to prepare one or more disk images.
Ideally, you have an idea for a disk image and also prepare it yourself.
But we also are glad to get just the ideas, or help from people who
would like to prepare a disk image with the idea from somebody else!

Disk image requirements:
 * We need 24 disk images (for the first 24 days of December)
 * Content must be freely redistributable (i.e. no proprietary
   license that prevents distribution). For GPL based software,
   you need to provide the source code, too.
 * Provide a name and a short description of the disk image
   (e.g. with hints on what to try)
 * Provide a ./run shell script that prints out the name and
   description/hints and launches QEMU
 * Provide a screenshot/image/logo for the website
 * Size should be ideally under 100 MB per disk image

Are you interested in participating? Then please reply to this email
(off-list if you do not want to spoil your idea for disk images).

Or do you have questions? Then feel free to reply or ask on the #qemu
channel on irc.oftc.net, too.

 Thomas & Kashyap


PS: The QEMU Advent Calendar 2016 is a secular calendar (not
religious). The idea is for the QEMU community to create a fun
experience to share with everyone, and to celebrate the 10th anniversary
of KVM. You don't need to celebrate Christmas or another religious
festival to participate!

PPS: Thanks to Stefan Hajnoczi for organizing the Advent Calendar 2014
... as you might have noticed, I also shamelessly lent some ideas and
sentences from his announcement e-mail from two years ago :-) [2]


[1] According to the following presentation, the anouncement of KVM was
in October 2006:
 http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/6/61/KvmForum2007$kf2007-keynote.pdf

[2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-10/msg02592.html

Re: [Qemu-devel] Help wanted: QEMU Advent Calendar 2016

[Thomas Huth]

 Dear QEMU community,

the website for the QEMU Advent Calendar 2016 is now online:

 http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/

(thanks to Jeff Cody and Stefan Hajnoczi for the help with getting started!)

Note that we still need some more disk images to be able to complete the
calendar this year, so if anybody wants to contribute, please get in
touch! ... see my original mail below for more information.

 Thomas


On 17.09.2016 15:05, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 
>  Hi all!
> 
> This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of KVM [1] (and the
> 25th anniversary of Linux), so to contribute to this celebration, we
> would like to reanimate the QEMU Advent Calendar.
> 
> If you didn't see the previous QEMU Advent Calendar 2014 yet, have a look at
> 
>   http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/
> 
> This year, too, the QEMU Advent Calendar 2016 will be a website that
> reveals a new disk image for download each day in December until the
> holiday season starts. Launching the disk image under QEMU will bring up
> a nice surprise!
> 
> But to be able to make this happen, we need help from people who
> - have ideas for disk images
> - would like to prepare one or more disk images.
> Ideally, you have an idea for a disk image and also prepare it yourself.
> But we also are glad to get just the ideas, or help from people who
> would like to prepare a disk image with the idea from somebody else!
> 
> Disk image requirements:
>  * We need 24 disk images (for the first 24 days of December)
>  * Content must be freely redistributable (i.e. no proprietary
>    license that prevents distribution). For GPL based software,
>    you need to provide the source code, too.
>  * Provide a name and a short description of the disk image
>    (e.g. with hints on what to try)
>  * Provide a ./run shell script that prints out the name and
>    description/hints and launches QEMU
>  * Provide a screenshot/image/logo for the website
>  * Size should be ideally under 100 MB per disk image
> 
> Are you interested in participating? Then please reply to this email
> (off-list if you do not want to spoil your idea for disk images).
> 
> Or do you have questions? Then feel free to reply or ask on the #qemu
> channel on irc.oftc.net, too.
> 
>  Thomas & Kashyap
> 
> 
> PS: The QEMU Advent Calendar 2016 is a secular calendar (not
> religious). The idea is for the QEMU community to create a fun
> experience to share with everyone, and to celebrate the 10th anniversary
> of KVM. You don't need to celebrate Christmas or another religious
> festival to participate!
> 
> PPS: Thanks to Stefan Hajnoczi for organizing the Advent Calendar 2014
> ... as you might have noticed, I also shamelessly lent some ideas and
> sentences from his announcement e-mail from two years ago :-) [2]
> 
> 
> [1] According to the following presentation, the anouncement of KVM was
> in October 2006:
>  http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/6/61/KvmForum2007$kf2007-keynote.pdf
> 
> [2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-10/msg02592.html
> 

[Qemu-devel] QEMU Advent Calendar 2016

[Thomas Huth]

 Hi all,

it's now December 1st, so the first door of the QEMU Advent Calendar
2016 can now be opened:

    http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#day-1

For the next 23 days, we are going to present a new disk image each day,
so if you like, stop by regularly (I won't send a reminder each day).

And yes, we still need more disk images to complete the run this year -
if you are interested in contributing, please have a look at my original
mail below.

 Enjoy,
  Thomas


On 17.09.2016 15:05, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 
>  Hi all!
> 
> This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of KVM [1] (and the
> 25th anniversary of Linux), so to contribute to this celebration, we
> would like to reanimate the QEMU Advent Calendar.
> 
> If you didn't see the previous QEMU Advent Calendar 2014 yet, have a look at
> 
>   http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/
> 
> This year, too, the QEMU Advent Calendar 2016 will be a website that
> reveals a new disk image for download each day in December until the
> holiday season starts. Launching the disk image under QEMU will bring up
> a nice surprise!
> 
> But to be able to make this happen, we need help from people who
> - have ideas for disk images
> - would like to prepare one or more disk images.
> Ideally, you have an idea for a disk image and also prepare it yourself.
> But we also are glad to get just the ideas, or help from people who
> would like to prepare a disk image with the idea from somebody else!
> 
> Disk image requirements:
>  * We need 24 disk images (for the first 24 days of December)
>  * Content must be freely redistributable (i.e. no proprietary
>    license that prevents distribution). For GPL based software,
>    you need to provide the source code, too.
>  * Provide a name and a short description of the disk image
>    (e.g. with hints on what to try)
>  * Provide a ./run shell script that prints out the name and
>    description/hints and launches QEMU
>  * Provide a screenshot/image/logo for the website
>  * Size should be ideally under 100 MB per disk image
> 
> Are you interested in participating? Then please reply to this email
> (off-list if you do not want to spoil your idea for disk images).
> 
> Or do you have questions? Then feel free to reply or ask on the #qemu
> channel on irc.oftc.net, too.
> 
>  Thomas & Kashyap
> 
> 
> PS: The QEMU Advent Calendar 2016 is a secular calendar (not
> religious). The idea is for the QEMU community to create a fun
> experience to share with everyone, and to celebrate the 10th anniversary
> of KVM. You don't need to celebrate Christmas or another religious
> festival to participate!

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Advent Calendar 2016

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Thomas Huth <huth@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> it's now December 1st, so the first door of the QEMU Advent Calendar
> 2016 can now be opened:
>
>     http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#day-1
>
> For the next 23 days, we are going to present a new disk image each day,
> so if you like, stop by regularly (I won't send a reminder each day).
>
> And yes, we still need more disk images to complete the run this year -
> if you are interested in contributing, please have a look at my original
> mail below.

Thanks for running QEMU Advent Calendar 2016.  I'll send you the 2
disk images we discussed this weekend.  Looking forward to seeing what
you have in store for us!

Stefan

[Qemu-devel] QEMU Advent Calendar 2016

[Ingve Vormestrand]

Hi! First of all, QEMU rocks!

I'm from the IncludeOS project, and QEMU is, without a doubt, one of our
favourite tools! (If you haven't heard about IncludeOS, it is an open
source unikernel operating system written in modern C++ (you can find out
more about the project at http://includeos.org/ and
https://github.com/hioa-cs/IncludeOS or see a very well received
presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4etEwG2_LY from this
year's CppCon).

One of the demo applications for IncludeOS is Acorn, a self-contained web
server that includes its own OS, can serve static content, handle REST
requests and provide an interactive real-time dashboard. The source is
available at https://github.com/includeos/acorn and there is a live preview
running at http://acorn2.unofficial.includeos.io/

We frequently distribute Acorn demos as QEMU images, and we thought that
maybe this could be a candidate for inclusion in your advent calendar?

Let me know if this is of interest to you or if you need further
information!

Ingve

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Advent Calendar 2016

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 03:24:27PM +0100, Ingve Vormestrand wrote:
> Hi! First of all, QEMU rocks!

Heya!

> I'm from the IncludeOS project, and QEMU is, without a doubt, one of our
> favourite tools! (If you haven't heard about IncludeOS, it is an open
> source unikernel operating system written in modern C++ (you can find out
> more about the project at http://includeos.org/ and
> https://github.com/hioa-cs/IncludeOS or see a very well received
> presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4etEwG2_LY from this
> year's CppCon).
> 
> One of the demo applications for IncludeOS is Acorn, a self-contained web
> server that includes its own OS, can serve static content, handle REST
> requests and provide an interactive real-time dashboard. The source is
> available at https://github.com/includeos/acorn and there is a live preview
> running at http://acorn2.unofficial.includeos.io/
>
> We frequently distribute Acorn demos as QEMU images, and we thought that
> maybe this could be a candidate for inclusion in your advent calendar?

Sounds good!  I've added it as an idea for one of the available free
slots.

If you'd have time to prepare the disk image, please go right ahead.
And if you have any questions for logistics, feel free to write to us
(perhaps off-list -- just to avoid traffic here :-)).

A quick reminder on requirements (search for "Disk image requirements"
here):

    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg03990.html

Thanks for contacting.

[...]

-- 
/kashyap