<story><title>QEMU Advent Calendar: A surprise disk image each day until Christmas</title><url>https://qemu-advent-calendar.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeonM</author><text>Today&amp;#x27;s image (netboot.xys) isn&amp;#x27;t even an image, it&amp;#x27;s just a shell script. It is both awesome and scary at the same time.&lt;p&gt;It boots an image straight from an unsecure http URL, and allows you to boot various BSDs and Linux flavours straight from the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theantonym</author><text>Hi, owner of &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;netboot.xyz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;netboot.xyz&lt;/a&gt; here.  netboot.xyz has https support, with http support still being in place for those that don&amp;#x27;t have https support compiled into iPXE as it&amp;#x27;s not compiled by default.  I&amp;#x27;d recommend checking out the site directly if this is something that interests you.  All of the source code running the site is on github as well and we&amp;#x27;re always open to contributions.  We also always try to retrieve the installer kernels directly from the OS supported mirrors when possible so that they are pulled from trusted sources.</text></comment>
<story><title>QEMU Advent Calendar: A surprise disk image each day until Christmas</title><url>https://qemu-advent-calendar.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeonM</author><text>Today&amp;#x27;s image (netboot.xys) isn&amp;#x27;t even an image, it&amp;#x27;s just a shell script. It is both awesome and scary at the same time.&lt;p&gt;It boots an image straight from an unsecure http URL, and allows you to boot various BSDs and Linux flavours straight from the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xaduha</author><text>I wish something like that existed for various single-board computers that are getting popular nowadays. Any sort of flexibility would be welcome, writing big images on a SD card gets old very fast. Yes, many things probably won&amp;#x27;t boot, but I&amp;#x27;d rather find out that they don&amp;#x27;t quickly.</text></comment>