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Make customized Alpine Linux disk image for virtual machines

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2024-05-08 · latest 2025-10-25

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  1. …In the past I've used a script called "alpine-make-vm-image" to run alpine images in digital ocean. https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image (Maybe that script does some magic to make booting a droplet directly from the image…
    comment by ratrocket · 2025-10-25 · in Making a micro Linux distro (2023)
  2. …say we are done and just want to build our VM images. There are already distro specific tools like https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image . What you want to do is install the packages created in the first step, run a simple…
    comment by imtringued · 2025-04-17 · in Development on Apple Silicon with UTM
  3. …nixos-generators [1] By the way, is there a way to create minimal NixOS VMs without systemd? - [0] https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image - [1] https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
    comment by sunshine-o · 2024-05-08 · in Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS