Run AIX in a docker container (Emulated/virtualized x86_64 using QEMU).
All images have KVM-enabled QEMU, which will be enabled if the docker engine supports it and you are running the container in privileged mode.
Available at Docker hub as madworx/aix.
$ docker run --rm -it madworx/aix:8.0-x86_64 uname -a
AIX AIX 8.0 AIX 8.0 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jul 17 14:59:51 UTC 2018 [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
$
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
$ docker run --rm -d --privileged -e "SSH_PUBKEY=$(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)" -p 2222:22 --name AIX madworx/aix:8.0-x86_64
$ ssh -p 2222 root@localhost
AIX ?.? (UNKNOWN)
Welcome to AIX!
We recommend that you create a non-root account and use su(1) for root access.
AIX#
or using ssh-agent:
$ docker run --rm -d --privileged -e "SSH_PUBKEY=$(ssh-add -L)" -p 2222:22 --name AIX madworx/aix:8.0-x86_64
$ ssh -p 2222 root@localhost
AIX ?.? (UNKNOWN)
Welcome to AIX!
We recommend that you create a non-root account and use su(1) for root access.
AIX# There are more options for customizing user accounts, mapping your host OS home directory into the AIX system etc. Check the docker-entrypoint.sh for details, or even better, document it and do a PR towards this project. :-)
If you feel that the container is slow in starting/responding, or you are getting the message "Warning: Lacking KVM support - slower(!) emulation will be used." upon startup, it means that you are either not running the container in privileged mode (--privileged when invoking docker run), or your operating system doesn't support KVM.
Not having support for KVM might be due to that you are running your Docker engine inside a virtual machine and that your host doesn't have support for nested virtualization.
For instance, when running a QEMU virtual machine under physical hardware, it is entirely possible to run this image with KVM support. (Which is the setup for the main development environment for this image).
Since we are using QEMU to emulate a target system, the "-x86_64" suffix serves to indicate which target system we are emulating.
On a x86_64 host, with KVM support, this is the most efficient (and preferred) way to run this image.
When running without KVM support, other target architectures supported by QEMU may be more efficient, but this is not something that has been tried out yet. (Feel free to try it out and submit a PR!)
Source code is hosted on GitHub.
Any and all contributions are welcome in form of pull requests.
jufajiang [[email protected]]