Steps

Installation of QEMU

Ubuntu

apt install qemu qemu-system

Arch Linux

pacman -S qemu-full

Setting up a virtual machine

• Create the virtual disk image

  qemu-img create -f qcow2 void.img 10G

• Download the image from https://voidlinux.org/download/ (base live glibc)

• Run the VM

  qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -hda void.img -cdrom void-live-x86_64-20210930.iso -boot d

  • Depending on output, you might need to use a VNC viewer

• Default credentials are username: root, password: voidlinux

• Run the Void Linux installer (on the default US keymap, the - is the key to the right of the 0)

  void-installer

• Configuration

  • Keyboard: de-latin1
  • RootPassword: root
  • Partition (using cfdisk): dos (MBR), 7.5G primary Linux, 2.5G Free space
  • BootLoader: /dev/sda
  • Filesystems: 7.5G ext4, /

• Install (ignore sed error)

• Reboot

• Pick "Boot first HD found by BIOS"

Booting without live ISO

• You can shutdown using

  poweroff

• Run the VM without the live ISO

  qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -hda void.img

Installing necessary components

• Update the system

  xbps-install -Su

• Install git

  xbps-install -S git

Compiling the kernel

• Install the necessary dependencies

  • Arch Linux

    pacman -S lld

  • Ubuntu

    apt install clang flex bison lld

• Follow the quickstart

• Configure the kernel

  make LLVM=1 menuconfig

  • / RUST -> ensure "Depends on:" is met

• Build the kernel

  make LLVM=1

Running the VM with the new kernel

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -hda void.img -append "root=/dev/sda1" -kernel ../Rust-for-Linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage