It’s been a while since I pimped my Django Dev Kit Appliance, mostly because I have been really busy with work, projects and my kid’s end of the school year. Anyhow, I rebuilt the appliance to use the latest Django 1.3 release plus several other updated packages such as git and mercurial. I have also stopped building Amazon EC2 images and will from now on only provide ISOs and Raw Filesystem images.
Speaking of Raw Filesystem images, here’s how I currently use it with QEMU. In my .bashrc file I have an alias that will boot them and redirect it’s internal ports 80 and 22 (apache and ssh) to my system’s port 8080 and 2222 respectively. I also forward port 3389 for Windows systems.
sudo qemu-kvm -m 2048 -hda "$1" -boot c -soundhw ac97 -redir tcp:8080::80 -redir tcp:2222::22 -redir tcp:9999::3389
So when I call my alias and pass a raw filesystem image as an argument, I can then use localhost as the destination to my http and ssh connections.
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I also have a special configuration in my .ssh/config file to make it easier for me to ssh to these virtual systems and not have to change my known_hosts file every time I boot a different system and try to ssh to localhost on port 2222:
Host qemu User root Port 2222 Hostname localhost StrictHostKeyChecking no UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
If you want to play with this appliance, feel free to download it in the following formats:
- Django DevKit Raw Filesystem x86 (379 MB - SHA1: 7d643506a4787b095876c9d706701f60bbf5122e)
- Django DevKit Raw Filesystem x86_64 (521 MB - SHA1: f48298e72092e514b4204f5465313fe421dbc0f6)
- Django DevKit ISO x86 (502 MB - SHA1: 1ab5d72513d724b976bd405bf6dbe31e6e1c8a5c)
- Django DevKit ISO x86_64 (392 MB - SHA1: 9a7ea35794b9773fc54cab387612ed9f38370407)