Sanity Check VS Code Servers

Linux Platforms

This is using the Remote-Containers extension and assumes Docker is installed.

• Install VS Code at the exact version (commit) that needs sanity checking.
• Install the Remote-Containers extension.
• Register the QEMU hardware emulator and start 4 kinds containers with the following commands:

docker run --rm --privileged hypriot/qemu-register
docker run -d ubuntu sleep infinity
docker run -d arm32v7/ubuntu sleep infinity
docker run -d arm64v8/ubuntu sleep infinity
docker run -d alpine /bin/sh -c 'while sleep 1; do :; done'

• Note: at the moment, you need to manually install libatomic on the arm32v7/ubuntu container:

  • docker ps to get the ID of the running container
  • docker exec -it <id> apt update
  • docker exec -it <id> apt install libatomic1

• Check that you can connect to each of the containers from the Remote Explorer.

  • Check which platform you are on by running uname -m from the integrated terminal. (Expect: x86_64, armv7l and aarch64)
  • Alpine Linux runs on x86_64, check cat /etc/os-release shows Alpine as the distro.

• Use the Remote Explorer to remove the containers. (Note that the current window's container cannot be removed, use a new window instead.)

Windows

Use the Remote-SSH extension to connect from any client platform to a Windows remote. You can use the test VM from this issue.

macOS

Use the Remote-SSH extension to connect from any client platform to a macOS remote (connecting to localhost is ok). To start the SSH server, you just have to enable Remote Login as described here.