This repo contains the code that generates the Alpine disk image used by Flashpoint's GameZip server. More information about what that does and how it works is available here.
In this file, we will go over the structure and organization of this repo, and give basic instructions for building the image.
- .gitignore: This currently ignores all qcow2 images in this directory. This is to prevent us from committing a built image into the file tree.
- .github/workflows/build.yml: This automates builds of the image.
- Makefile: This contains comamnds for building and cleaning up the image.
- build.sh: This is called by the makefile. It gets and runs the scripts from Alpine that create a standard Alpine VM image. It also does post-processing that shrinks the VM image.
- gamezip: This is an openrc service definition. It contains the commands for mounting and unmounting AVFS and UnionFS.
- needed_mods.txt: This is a list of all the kernel modules needed for our VM to run. There might be some extras that we don't need still on there. I just stopped removing modules when it broke.
- setup.sh: This is run (chroot-ed, I think) inside the base VM image. It sets up all the things we need, and removes the things we don't.
- snapshot.sh: This takes a running snapshot of the VM, so that starting it up when Flashpoint runs is much faster.
To build the image, cd into this directory, and run sudo make. That's it! Let the script run. DO NOT interrupt the script. It can end up running commands from setup.sh on your system, which can be quite catastrophic. An unfortunate developer once deleted half his kernel modules this way.
To run the snapshot, run:
export QEMU_EXTRA_ARGS="-machine pc-i440fx-5.2"sudo ./snapshot.sh
The sudo on that last command isn't needed if your user has the proper permissions. (e.g. is part of the kvm group)
To test your newly-built image, copy alpine.qcow2 from this directory to Server/alpine.qcow2 in an existing Flashpoint installation. Options can be adjusted in Data/services.json if needed.