Let me preface that this has no practical purpose and is more of a side project (fun in a odd sense).
Recently there was a collection of old Ubuntu images from canonical that were published to archive.org (includes from cdimage.ubuntu.com along with a cache from ubuntu-emulator).
I thought it would be interesting from a historical perspective (dare I say this one day would be considered retro in the computing sense 
) getting a Xenial virtualbox instance configured complete with Ubuntu SDK, along with the built-in emulation etc... The idea would be if someone wanted to play with compiling clicks, seeing the os through its development etc prior to canonical cancelling it with or without physical hardware (knowing nexus based devices may eventually be completely irreparable).
I found on the forum that there once was an Ubuntu touch programming course that a user created that did have vm uploaded to google drive however we are talking years ago and through the course of time the link is now 404.
Additionally I have been looking to potentially building the full VM myself which the issue then becomes the actual SDK images since the sdk.cannonical site has passed to the ether. I have been looking into the usdk-image-tools on ubports github and was successful on the xenial images. However on the vivid images (after changing the repos to old-releases etc...) it is failing on a SSL error when attempting the PPA which I think can be getting around by recoding the ppa to the archive url and append it to the sources.list.
I guess my question is in three parts (obviously if the top point is answered the others are irrelevant).
- Does anyone have a VM of a functional Ubuntu SDK environment that would be willing to share?
- Is there any available Ubuntu SDK images for Vivid floating out there?
- I know how to import LXD containers in general however when I attempted the 16.04 images i created Ubuntu SDK did not see them, rather wanted to go to the *.cannonical.com. Am I missing an alias or something special that made that seen on the backend?
~/Downloads/dosbox) and copy over my apps and games with no problem. I have only tested this with a bluetooth keyboard. There may be a much better way of doing this, however I have yet to see any info on doing this. I principally wanted to play some old dos games (and wordperfect lol).