OS Images of Phosh's Nightly Builds

Overview

BengalOS provides immutable and mutable images for Phosh's nightly package builds. The immutable variants support A/B updates and are thus safe to upgrade and give a more phone-like upgrade experience.

All of BengalOS is currently experimental, we might make incompatible changes at any time.

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Immutable Images
A/B updates · safer upgrades

Immutable BengalOS images provide atomic A/B updates and are designed for a phone-like upgrade experience.

Download qcow2 Image

How do I use this?

Mutable Images
Traditional writable system

Mutable images behave like a traditional Linux system and are easier to customize and modify locally.

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Installation

To boot the immutable image in a virtual machine, download and uncompress it and then boot it e.g. using virt-install.

Detailed installation steps (click to expand)

Install virt-install, libvirt and QEMU:


sudo apt install virt-install libvirt-daemon-system qemu-system-x86

Download the image:


wget https://bengalos.phosh.mobi/images/roaming/x86-64/qemu/latest.qcow2.xz

Unpack the image:
```
unxz latest.qcow2.xz
          
```

Create and boot the virtual machine:


virt-install --connect qemu:///session --boot uefi,firmware.feature0.name=secure-boot,firmware.feature0.enabled=yes,firmware.feature1.name=enrolled-keys,firmware.feature1.enabled=no --vcpus 4 --memory 4096 --osinfo debiantesting -n bengalos --video qxl --import --disk latest.qcow2  --serial pty

The virtual machine should boot with secure boot enabled and greet you with the first-boot assistant.

See the README for more details and how to build images yourself.

Getting in Touch

The community is centered around the BengalOS Matrix room. For issues and feature requests, please use the issue tracker.

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