Commit Graph

4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Mike Radyuk
85217cd11d added asciidoc support 2012-10-31 21:22:06 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
eb3df648a2 minor documentation facelift
A few more items were asking for some attention.

In particular, build examples should start with
the most basic, error-proof and quick targets.
2012-08-11 22:56:41 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
8a04d9b656 initial specific VM formats support
Raw disk images are convenient and universal
but there are custom formats like Qemu's qcow2
providing additional features, e.g. copy-on-write
or space savings.  All of this ultimately belongs
to mkimage but in the mean time has been implemented
here as well.
2012-06-25 19:29:38 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
75f7c62bd1 initial build-vm feature
Yes, mkimage-profiles is now able to build VM disk images.
So far the support is pretty basic:

- a single hard drive image with a single partition/FS
- only stock root password is configurable
- LILO is hardwired as a bootloader

The resulting images tend to boot under qemu/kvm though.

Please see doc/vm.txt for the warning regarding additional
privileges and setup required.  This was started back in
February but I still hoped to avoid sudo/privileged helper
(and libguestfs is almost as undistributable as can be)...

Thanks:

- http://blog.quinthar.com/2008/07/building-1gb-bootable-qemu-image-using.html
- Alexey Morarash who reworked that as https://github.com/tuxofil/linsygen
- led@, legion@, vitty@, aen@ for providing advice and inspiration
2012-06-18 21:56:46 +03:00