Adding a components script to Sculpt on Build?

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Hi Martin,

Actually the VM stuff was in Section 3 on page 13 of the Sculpt 20.02 PDF,
made a mistake in my citing and the persistence discussion was in Section
4.6.
Sorry

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 8:54 AM Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie at outstep.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the information on this, Martin as it is helpful.
>
> I am working my way through the Genode manual after having gone through
> the Sculpt documentation recently and little-by-little things become
> clearer.
>
> I actually saw the part in Sculpt about making things permanent, but since
> I am having troubles getting all of the components in place, in particular
> with the Virtualbox setup which is referenced in Section 5 of Sculpt 20.02
> where it give you the link to follow setting up VM's (
> https://genodians.org/m-stein/2019-03-07-vm-with-sculpt-ce-preview), I
> wanted to investigate the possibility of setting it up pre-configured since
> the "+" component configurations are off-screen in Qemu and have already
> tried to reduce the Sculpt Font sizes to small (as was recently suggested
> "Nobody III" from the mailing list) in an attempt to get those components
> on-screen to configure.
>
> Also, I have looked at changing the Qemu resolution but that did not help
> as well.
>
> Maybe in the next iteration of Sculpt, the "+" component system could be
> scrollable or movable on the Sculpt desktop so that there could be an
> easier way for users to complete component selection and configurations as
> the components have submenus that seem to go off-screen when expanded to
> configure.
>
> I'll keep reading up on things to see if I can get it to work, though.
> Cheers
> Lonnie
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 5:25 AM Martin Stein <martin.stein at genode-labs.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lonnie,
>>
>> El 11/4/20 a las 15:52, Lonnie Cumberland escribió:
>> > I am particularly interested in starting up VirtualBox to see how that
>> > works but with the "off screen" problem persistent to select the options
>> > needed for "vm-with-sculpt-ce-preview" directions, I started to wonder
>> > if it might be possible to have some type of "script" that I could add
>> > in during the img/iso builds for Sculpt that would automatically select
>> > and add in all of the components needed so that I could just boot up
>> > this new modified img/iso and have the VirtualBox frontend GUI  started
>> > up by default?
>>
>> The sculpt manager is doing the deployment using the file
>> 'config/managed/deploy'. This file always contains a complete
>> description of the deployment in your runtime. See the Sculpt
>> documentation [1]:
>>
>> "... The content of the deploy file is taken as the starting point for
>> the interactive use via the + menu. All interactive changes to the
>> deployment are reflected in the managed/deploy file ..."
>>
>> Once you used GUI and sculpt manager to populate this file with your
>> individual static setup, you can make the changes permant as the Sculpt
>> documentation says:
>>
>> "... To make it permanent, copy the current state of
>> /config/managed/deploy to /<DISK>/config/<VERSION>/deploy where <DISK>
>> corresponds to your Sculpt partition ..." (<VERSION> would be 20.02 here)
>>
>> For sub-systems that you'd like to use often with the same configuration
>> but that shall not be started automatically, launchers exist:
>>
>> "... Additionally, the deployment can be controlled by ... and the
>> so-called launchers located at the launcher/ sub directory. ...
>> Launchers appear at the top level of the + menu. ..."
>>
>> Launchers can also be made permanent by copying them to
>> /<DISK>/config/<VERSION>/launcher/<LAUNCHER_NAME>.
>>
>> All this is described in more detail in the documentation.
>>
>> However, if you really want to have your deployment shipped with the
>> boot image, AFAIK, you'd have to modify the sculpt manager code to
>> generate different default configs.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>> [1] https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-20-02
>>
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