not really relevant to anything but this reminded me that one of the first pieces of code I ever wrote was a little visual studio project that rendered a virtual cursor for each mouse plugged into my dad's laptop
JauntyWunderKind@jauntywunderkind.bsky.social · last wk.this is imo one of those latent omega projects of computing that changes everything forever completely & that we cannot imagine the time before on. multiplayer/coop! blinry.org/multi-seat-w... ambient screens/workspaces about that we can readily come join in on. go @blinry.org go! /cc @genmon.fyi
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FROM debian:trixie AS cephwrap
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl
RUN curl -LO https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/noble/current/noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
RUN apt-get install -y qemu-system-x86 cloud-image-utils iproute2
RUN qemu-img resize noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img +10G
COPY ./user-data ./user-data
COPY ./meta-data ./meta-data
COPY ./vendor-data ./vendor-data
COPY ./network-config ./network-config
COPY <<EOF ./run.sh
#!/bin/bash
set -ex
# a bunch of kerfuffle to put the vm directly on the network:
# - steal eth0's ip and assign it to the vm
# - create a bridge between eth0 and tap0
IP=\$(ip -o -f inet addr show eth0 | awk '{print \$4}')
IP_NO_MASK=\${IP%/*}
GATEWAY=\$(ip route | awk '/default/ {print \$3}')
sed -i "s|{{ADDRESS}}|\$IP|g" network-config
sed -i "s|{{ADDRESS}}|\$IP_NO_MASK|g" user-data
sed -i "s|{{GATEWAY}}|\$GATEWAY|g" network-config
cloud-localds cloud-init.iso user-data meta-data --vendor-data vendor-data --network-config network-config
ip link add br0 type bridge
ip tuntap add dev tap0 mode tap
ip link set tap0 master br0
ip link set tap0 up
ip addr del \$IP dev eth0
ip link set eth0 master br0
ip link set br0 up
qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm,type=q35 -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2048 -drive file=noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img,if=virtio -cdrom ./cloud-init.iso -display none -serial stdio -netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0
EOF
CMD ["bash", "run.sh"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r2p7kytjuidhmvsutbawfai7/bafkreifopjanc3aoij2ktyziqsdlokmeoacsd22sajjgfanqyk5stzhdki)
