JacopoMangiavacchi / M1-Linux-SSH

Apple M1 Linux VM with SSH interface

M1-Linux-SSH

Apple M1 Linux VM with SSH interface

Usage

Host

• Download a Linux ARM distribution such as focal-desktop-arm64.iso
• Extract vmlinuz and initrd following this:
  1. sudo mkdir /Volumes/Ubuntu
  2. sudo hdiutil attach -nomount /path/to/your/downloaded.iso
  3. sudo mount -t cd9660 /dev/diskX /Volumes/Ubuntu (X is what the FDisk_partition_scheme from step 2)
  4. open /Volumes/Ubuntu/casper
  5. Copy vmlinuz and initrd to your own folder
  6. Rename vmlinuz to vmlinuz.gz and unarchive it
• Build and call the service passing path to iso and extracted vmlinuz and initrd files

USAGE: vm-service <linux-path> <vmlinuz-path> <initrd-path> [--ip <ip>] [--port <port>] [--username <username>] [--password <password>]

ARGUMENTS:
  <linux-path>            Path to the Linux ISO file.
  <vmlinuz-path>          Path to the vmlinuz file.
  <initrd-path>           Path to the initrd file.

OPTIONS:
  --ip <ip>               IP Address. (default: 0.0.0.0)
  --port <port>           Port. (default: 2222)
  --username <username>   SSH Username.
  --password <password>   SSH Password.
  -h, --help              Show help information.

Client

ssh 0.0.0.0 -p 2222

Credits

This project use the Apple SwiftNIO SSH package and it is strongly inspired by the work done by Khaos Tian with the SimpleVM project