I've just pushed out the release 0.40 of vmdb2, my tool for creating a disk image with Debian installed. The release notes are below.

Version 0.40, released 2024-03-23

Version number is bumped a lot to avoid some incorrectly tagged versions that Lars is very sorry for. Other than that, this version is mainly a few bug fixes, mostly from other people.

  • Documentation fix: README.md points to base.vmdb as an example, rather than pc.vmdb, which has long since been deleted.

  • ppc64el.vmdb has been fixed so that it at least builds. It's unknown whether it builds an image that boots.

  • From Matej Kovac, fixes to resolv.conf configuration: don't copy the host's configuration.

  • From Peter Palfrader, a fix the cryptsetup plugin to import the logging module.

  • From Victor Westerhuis, a fix to using the right grub-ieee1275 depending on the target system.