installroot, debootstrap, pacstrap and zypper, and those Note though that not all distributions are supported at the sameįeature level currently. Images based on the following Linux distributions: Note that mkosi is distribution-agnostic. If the image is made bootable, the dm-verity root hash is automatically added to the kernel command line, and the kernel together with its initial RAM disk and the kernel command line is optionally cryptographically signed for UEFI SecureBoot.
The root partition may be protected using dm-verity, thus making offline attacks on the generated system hard.The root, /home and /srv partitions may be optionally encrypted with LUKS.Separate partitions for /home and /srv may be added in.The system may be made bootable on EFI systems.When any of the GPT choices above are selected, a couple of additional A btrfs subvolume on disk, similar to the plain directory.A plain directory on disk containing the OS tree directly (this is useful for creating generic container images).Raw GPT disk image, with a read-only squashfs as root.So, let's have a look on the specific images it can generate: Systemd-nspawn can automatically dissect the image and boot from So that /etc/fstab can remain unpopulated and tools such as Specifications such as the Discoverable Partitions Mkosi to generate a bootable image for you, it will make it bootable We'll generate GPT partition tables, not MBR/DOS ones. Mkosi is supposed to be legacy-free: the focus is clearly on Servers, or IoT devices or whatever you are building. Such an image could then be deployed withĬasync (or any other tool of course) to be delivered to your set of This final image is then "production-ready", and onlyĬontains your built program and the minimal set of packages youĬonfigured otherwise.
Without development headers and tools, and install your buildĪrtifacts in it. Suite, then throw away the image again, and build a new one, this time
mkosi will put together the image withĭevelopment headers and tools, compile your code in it, run your test Would be to add a fault file to an existing project (forĮxample, one written in C or Python), and thus making it easy to Production images with cryptographic protection. Mkosi is definitely a tool with a focus on developer's needs forīuilding OS images, for testing and debugging, but also for generating What are those use-cases, and what does mkosi precisely set apart? Think make it interesting for a variety of use-cases that other tools But mkosi has a number of features that I Yes, there are many tools like mkosi, and a number of them are quite Image, and is a tool for precisely that: generating an OS tree or mkosi has been around for a while already, and its time to With this key the signature can be verified like this: The release signing key can be downloaded with WKD:
PleaseĮnsure the download image matches the checksum from the sha256sums.txt orī2sums.txt file in the same directory as the image. In addition to the BitTorrent links above, install images can also beĭownloaded via HTTP from the mirror sites listed below. Official virtual machine images are available for download on our GitLab instance, more information is available in the README. You can run the image with the following command: docker run -it archlinux VM images The official Docker image is available on Docker Hub. You can bootstrap the image with the following commands: vagrant init archlinux/archlinux vagrant up Docker image Vagrant images for libvirt and virtualbox are available on the Vagrant Cloud. If you have a wired connection, you can boot the latest release directly over the network. If you can spare the bytes, please leave the client open after yourĭownload is finished, so you can seed it back to others.Ī web-seed capable client is recommended for fastest download speeds. You may be looking forĪn updated mirrorlist instead.
If you are an existing Arch user, there is no need to download a new ISO Is intended for new installations only an existing Arch Linux system Or be directly written to a USB stick using a utility like dd. The image can be burned to a CD, mounted as an ISO file,