AndrewFasano
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5 months ago You can interactively run the guest, install the utilities you want and then take a new snapshot.
If you run python3 -m pandare.qcows x86_64 it will give you a command line for interactively starting the x86_64 generic image. Then you can run that and can interactively install your utilities. Then switch to the qemu monitor by pressing ctrl + a and then c and you should see a (qemu) prompt. From there you can type savevm myroot or some other name to create your own snapshot. Finally, you could update your pypanda scripts to call panda.revert_sync("myroot") to load the snapshot you generated.
During your interactive use you might need to run something like dhclient so your guest gets an updated dhcp lease and can reach the internet.
How to install httpd and other apps into the ubuntu_1604_x86.qcow? I have tried the cmds "panda.run_serial_cmd("apt install apache2") " and "panda.run_serial_cmd("systemctl status httpd")" but they don't work. Is there any qcow or qcow2 mirror links for ubuntu_1604_x86 with apache2 installed? How to solve it to running the cmds? Hope for your good suggestion!!