Alpine VM #2239

Name of the Script

Alpine

Script Type

VM (Virtual Machine)

Does this script support arm64?

arm64 not supported

📋 Script Details

vm/alpine-vm.sh — creates an Alpine Linux VM from the official cloud image. Built on the new core (pve/vm-core.func).

Alpine only existed as an LXC so far, where it can never have a kernel of its own. This closes that gap.

Two deliberate differences from the other cloud-image scripts:

• No systemctl and no SELinux relabel. Alpine runs OpenRC, and the cloud image already wires the serial console through /etc/inittab.
• It takes the uefi image, not bios. Alpine publishes both side by side; since these scripts boot through OVMF, the BIOS variant would produce a VM that never starts.

The release and the -r revision are both in the filename (generic_alpine-3.24.1-x86_64-uefi-cloudinit-r0.qcow2), so the directory is listed rather than guessed.

Defaults: 2 cores, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB disk, Cloud-Init enabled.

What to test

• Whether virt-customize handles the musl image cleanly on all storage types
• Cloud-Init on Alpine specifically — it is the least exercised of the cloud images here
• Serial console
• Boot from the UEFI image with pre-enrolled-keys=0