A few weeks ago, I pushed out a VM image (Qemu QCOW2 format) to the /experimental/amd64/qemu-selinux/ location in our mirrors. This VM image (which is about 1.6 Gib large decompressed) provides a SELinux-enabled, Gentoo Hardened (with PaX and other grSecurity security settings) base installation. Thanks to the Qcow2 image format, only the used 1.6 Gib of data is taken on your disk, even though the image is made for a 50 Gib deployment).

The purpose of this image is, eventually, to allow users to test our Gentoo Hardened with SELinux in a virtual environment, offering decent isolation (so you can mess things up if you want, it doesn't hurt your own system). I'm also contemplating of providing more serious SELinux-focused course material (self-teaching stuff) based on this image, so that users can learn about Gentoo Hardened (and SELinux) in a structured manner.

But before all that, I first need to see if the image is usable by most people:

• Does it boot? It is an amd64 image for the Qemu KVM64 CPU, but the kernel uses paravirtualization for disk and network access, and I don't know if that's a safe bet to do or not. People that know KVM know that the paravirtualization support is needed for decent performance, but I'm not sure if it still makes the images sufficiently portable or not.
• Does it work? The build is done based on my own systems, but these are all built in a similar fashion (and use binhosts to simplify deployment) so in effect, I can only test the images on a single system type (multiple, but they're all the same, so doesn't matter).

If I can get some comments on this (it boots, it doesn't boot, it sucks, ...) and can work out things, I hope I can have the images better for all of us.

Edit: yes, keyboard layout is azerty, not qwerty. So your rootpass will be rootpqss. Updates-are-a-comin'