Introduction
The ISO image for TinyCore has a bug where you will see two mice. This is because the ISO has issues with the display adapter.
Resolution
This can be resolved by installing TinyCore to a disk image and installing xorg-7.7 from the repo.
As a workaround when using your mouse on these VMs you can move off the noVNC screen and continue your movement from the opposite side to control where you need to go.
Step by Step
Download TinyCore Plus.
distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/downloads.html
Start TinyCore with a bridged adapter and a disk in snapshot false
disk create qcow2 /home/ubuntu/tinycore.qcow2 100G vm config disk /home/ubuntu/tinycore.qcow2 vm config cdrom /home/ubuntu/CorePlus-current.iso vm config memory 256 vm config net 0 vm config snapshot false vm launch kvm tiny vm start tiny
When on the desktop, click on install.
Select Whole Disk, Click on sda, and click on the next arrow.
Click on the next arrow
Click on the next arrow
Click on the next arrow
Click proceed
When finished close the window
Click on the exit icon in the taskbar
Click OK to shutdown the VM.
Remove the ISO from the VM.
vm flush clear vm config cdrom /home/ubuntu/CorePlus-current.iso vm launch kvm tiny vm start tiny
Turn the VM on and when on the desktop Click on Apps
Click Yes
Click OK when the fastest mirror is selected.
Click Apps->Cloud(Remote)->Browse
Search for xorg
click on Xorg-7.7.tcz
click Go
Wait for the download to finish and install
Click on the X to close the Apps window
Click on exit
Click OK to turn off the machine
Copy this image to your minimega machine.
Booting tinycore with Xorg
minimega -attach clear vm config vm config memory 128 vm config disk /home/ubuntu/tiny.qcow vm launch kvm tiny vm start tiny
Broken:
Fixed:
Fixing the viewport
You may notice the mouse lines up, but the bottom half of the screen scrolls. You need to create a valid xorg.conf and set a vga resolution as a kernel append argument.
To set a kernel append argument
sudo vi /mnt/sda1/tce/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
after quiet add
vga=791
To set an xorg.conf
sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
And paste the following file
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "glx" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "vesa" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Virtual 1024 768 Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection
With TinyCore in order to save files between boots they need to be added to a list
sudo vi /opt/.filetool.lst
This list needs to be processed by the program filetool.sh
sudo filetool.sh -b
On reboot this should fix the view port issue.
Authors
The minimega authors
30 May 2017