Install instructions?

[uberhacker]

@SvenDowideit: This looks like exactly what I'm looking for to get qemu working with docker. How do you install? I assume make then make install? With that said, I tried and didn't have any success. :)

[SvenDowideit]

mostly, I just download from https://github.com/jigtools/docker-machine-driver-qemu/releases and put it in my path.

[afbjorklund]

@uberhacker : for some reason, the default target is "build-clean". You want to run make default.

[makamekm]

I built, copied into bin. But I got a message:
Driver "qemu" not found. Do you have the plugin binary "docker-machine-driver-qemu" accessible in your PATH?

[afbjorklund]

Did you ? (which docker-machine-driver-qemu)

[makamekm]

Yes, it is good, but doesn't work via docker.

[ipatch]

Haven't seen any news relating to this issue as of late, (by late I mean within the past month), that said, I forked, cloned, and built the repo locally against the latest QEMU v2.12.x on macOS 10.13.5

I was having issues creating the VM locally, ie. macOS with QEMU v2.12 because the qemu-img command wasn't cooperating with this driver. 🤦‍♀️ However, looking at some other docker drivers I was able to make some minor commits to my fork and was able to create a docker VM using this driver.

I totally agree with @uberhacker in that the README.md for this repo is sorely lacking info on building the binaries from the go source.

That said, I probably know a little more about the Go programming language than I did prior to yesterday.

In closing, I'll get a couple of PR's going in a little bit with the require changes to get this driver built using the latest qemu v2.12 and I'll do my best to include the instructions I used to get (no pun intended there 🙄) the driver built.

Below are a couple screen captures 📸 of my progress.

[SvenDowideit]

wow! nice job.

I'll try to merge asap, and the make a release.

I only used this driver on linux, I had no idea that qemu on osx was useful!

[makamekm]

I have fixed this issue by setting "chmod 777 ...". Thanks!

[laszbalo]

Installing on Linux:

base=https://github.com/machine-drivers/docker-machine-driver-qemu/releases/download/v0.1.0 && \
curl -L $base/default.docker-machine-driver-qemu-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) >/tmp/docker-machine-driver-qemu &&  \
sudo install /tmp/docker-machine-driver-qemu /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-qemu

[totoroot]

Since this repository seems to be rather inactive, anyone looking for more detailed installation instructions can take a look at my fork of CandySunPlus's fork with QEMU 6.x support which works as of December 2021 on Linux and macOS.

Related issue #8

[afbjorklund]

@totoroot :
It would be possible to update this "machine-drivers" repository, but since Docker Machine is now dead (even officially) there is no real place to get updated binaries... Including the docker-machine-driver-kvm and docker-machine-driver-qemu

[SvenDowideit]

So, we created this repo (and org) as a place that you, the community of devs (like you) could continue the work

If someone needs access, ping us! (I haven't used machine since I left Rancher - tho considering where I am now, idk :) )

[afbjorklund]

But we also need an active fork and binary release of both docker-machine and boot2docker, otherwise these drivers are less useful.

[SvenDowideit]

agreed - the offer stands - if you, @totoroot , or anyone else wants to help make that happen here, I can set you up

https://github.com/machine-drivers/machine had a PR merged in the last month, and we can bring b2d into this org too.

[afbjorklund]

https://github.com/machine-drivers/machine had a PR merged in the last month,

Mostly bugfixes needed for minikube, since upstream wasn't accepting contributions...

My plan was to make a common platform instead of one docker-machine and one podman-machine, etc.

But then lima already did it (for nerdctl), so that meant that floe and ice were left in the planning stages.

[totoroot]

@SvenDowideit @afbjorklund Thanks for the swift response and your explanations on the matter at hand.
I understand why there hasn't been much activity and I am fine with using the old docker-machine and boot2docker versions on macOS as I do most dev work on Linux anyways. I don't think I could contribute much to this repo.

Thanks for putting in the good work!