Alpine in QEMU: A Practical Guide From Scratch

In this post, we'll go through the steps needed to install Alpine Linux as a guest OS in a virtual machine. Alpine is a lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox . Because of its minimal size, it is commonly used as a base for container images . Here, taking advantage of its size, we'll use it to install Docker , aiming for a smaller image than what we'd get using Debian (as…