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+title: AutoQEMU - automate installation and SSH setup of ISO OS images
+
+date: 2021-02-07
+
+layout: post
+
+lang: en
+
+ref: autoqemu-automate-installation-and-ssh-setup-of-iso-os-images
+
+---
+
+After reading begriffs "[Tips for stable and portable software][begriffs-article]", the "Begriffs Buildfarm?" section caught my attention, as this is something I would be interested in.
+
+After emailing the author, a [public thread] began on the subject.
+
+As we discussed how it could be done, I decided to experiment with the idea of automating the setup of virtual environments with QEMU.
+
+This screencast is a simple demo of automating the installation of Alpine Linux 3.12.3 standard x86_64 with [AutoQEMU], which is nothing more than POSIX sh, [expect] scripts and Makefiles glued together.
+
+As of this writing, I just worked on it for 2~3 days, so everything is still pretty ad-hoc.
+
+The commands from the screencast were[^script-command]:
+
+[^script-command]: Only now, writing again what I ran on the screencast that I should have tried something like [script](https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/script.1.html). Maybe next time (thanks [klaatu](https://gnuworldorder.info/) for the tip!).
+
+```shell
+pushd `mktemp -d`
+git clone https://git.euandreh.xyz/autoqemu .
+./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local
+make install
+autoqemu ssh alpine
+```
+
+It assumes that `$HOME/.local/bin` is in `$PATH`.
+
+[begriffs-article]: https://begriffs.com/posts/2020-08-31-portable-stable-software.html
+[public thread]: https://talk.begriffs.com/pipermail/friends/2021-February/001263.html
+[AutoQEMU]: https://git.euandreh.xyz/autoqemu
+[expect]: https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index