Virtual Machines on Flatcar Container Linux

Running Flatcar Container Linux on Hyper-V

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

While we always welcome community contributions and fixes, please note that Hyper-V is not an officially supported platform at this time because the release tests don’t run for it. (See the platform overview .)

These instructions will walk you through running Flatcar Container Linux on Hyper-V.

Choose a channel

Flatcar Container Linux is designed to be updated automatically with different schedules per channel. You can disable this feature , although we don’t recommend it. Read the release notes for specific features and bug fixes.

Running Flatcar Container Linux on KubeVirt

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

While we always welcome community contributions and fixes, please note that KubeVirt is not an officially supported platform at this time because the release tests don’t run for it. (See the platform overview .)

These instructions will walk you through running Flatcar Container Linux on KubeVirt.

Choose a channel

Running Flatcar Container Linux on libvirt

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This guide explains how to run Flatcar Container Linux with libvirt using the QEMU driver. The libvirt configuration file can be used (for example) with virsh or virt-manager. The guide assumes that you already have a running libvirt setup and virt-install tool. If you don’t have that, other solutions are most likely easier. At the end of the document there are instructions for deploying with Terraform.

You can direct questions to the Matrix channel or mailing list .

Running on QEMU

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

These instructions will bring up a single Flatcar Container Linux instance under QEMU, the small Swiss Army knife of virtual machine and CPU emulators. If you need to do more such as configuring networks differently refer to the QEMU Wiki and User Documentation .

You can direct questions to the Matrix channel or mailing list .

Install QEMU

In addition to Linux it can be run on Windows and OS X but works best on Linux. It should be available on just about any distro.

Running Flatcar Container Linux on Vagrant

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

While we always welcome community contributions and fixes, please note that Vagrant is not an officially supported platform at this time. (See the platform overview .)

Running Flatcar Container Linux with Vagrant is one way to bring up a single machine or virtualize an entire cluster on your laptop. Since the true power of Flatcar Container Linux can be seen with a cluster, we’re going to concentrate on that. Instructions for a single machine can be found towards the end of the guide.

Running on VirtualBox

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

While we always welcome community contributions and fixes, please note that VirtualBox is not an officially supported platform at this time. (See the platform overview .)

These instructions will walk you through running Flatcar Container Linux on Oracle VM VirtualBox.

Building the virtual disk

There is a script that simplifies building the VDI image. It downloads a bare-metal image, verifies it with GPG, and converts that image to a VDI image.