Note: this is the old page, see Aranym/Quick for the current version of this page.

Aranym is a virtual Atari machine which is useful for M68k Porting. This is a one page installation intended to get Debian/m68k sid running quickly. The disk image is fairly minimal, but it has build-essential and openssh-client installed.

Contact: <debian-68k@lists.debian.org>

Install Aranym

Aranym recommends bridge-utils, ipmasq, and uml-utilities. ipmasq may cause you networking grief if you aren't aware.

apt-get install aranym

New image

This image was prepared by Thorsten Glaser in July 2011.

Download the tarball from people.debian.org
Download the signature from people.debian.org
Verify cryptographic integrity: 「gpg dc11m68k.tgz.asc」
Extract the tarball
Follow the instructions inside for customising the configuration and setting up your network (also read the network notes below)
Start up the VM
Log in as root/root, change the hostname, (optionally) run 「_getrnd」 to download entropy from the MirBSD service ☺, then run this to set up the system: 「dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server; apt-get update; apt-get install popularity-contest「 (the first command generates the SSH private keys, which were omitted from the image so every copy will have their own ones)
Also follow the other instructions in the 0-NOTE.txt file (just read it carefully)
You can probably dist-upgrade now, and run 「eatmydata cowbuilder --update」

Old image

This image was prepared by Stephen Marenka in… 2009? 2010? It’s pre-TLS.

Download Files

Put all the downloaded files in one directory.

Download the disk image (97M).
- The 10G sparse file is 642M uncompressed.
- Requires p7zip to decompress:
```
7zr x -so disk.tar.7z | tar xvf -
```
Download the configuration file.
Download the kernel.

Configure Networking

Make sure tun is available and setup correctly.

The disk image is setup for point-to-point networking. On your host add the following to /etc/network/interfaces.

auto tap0
iface tap0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.1
        pointopoint 192.168.1.2
        netmask 255.255.255.255
        tunctl_user stephen
        up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.2 -j MASQUERADE
        down iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.2 -j MASQUERADE

Enable forwarding.

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Then start the network.

ifup tap0

For more details on networking, see Aranym/Networking.

Note that the default network setup on the image is broken, see the point-to-point section for a correct /etc/network/interfaces (change netmask from /24 to /32 and add a pointopoint stanza).

Start Aranym

aranym is an SDL application, so you need X or something like Aranym/Headless. The configuration file specifies the amount of RAM aranym gets (see FastRAM). It's currently set at 768MB, adjust to taste. Aranym will happily drive a single cpu core on the host to 100%, but usually isn't that demanding.

aranym-mmu -l -c aranym.config

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