4 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Michael Shigorin	5e9ba6fb1a	tar2vm: reworked to use sfdisk ... The issue (#28002) resulting in vm image build error reading Syntax error at or above line 5 in file '/etc/lilo-loop.conf' was caused by fdisk-2.22 changing its "-l" option output format to drop the very mention of the long irrelevant crap named "CHS". The problem is, however, that we still need that crap to piggyback a loop device's fake geometry to lilo while installing it there. Reported by icesik@.	2012-11-19 23:26:51 +02:00
Michael Shigorin	e52e21781f	actually useful vm/icewm ... See http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/86239.html#1 for a query that has led to this one; in particular, - xdm dropped (won't log in root and there are no users yet); - network is brought up and configured via DHCP by default; - apt-get works out-of-box; - default image size is twice the chroot size.	2012-09-03 19:16:50 +03:00
Michael Shigorin	e355bd7ce9	bashize tar2vm ... Finally tired of expr(1) quirks, and even ash(1) does $((arithmetic-expansion))!	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