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Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Shigorin
a18295f223 {lib,conf.d}/{ve,vm}.mk: shift the real targets
lib/*.mk aren't going to be parsed for build targets
in the near future; and the early placement of those
targets was superseded by a dedicated configuration
snippet directory so just move these bits there.
2013-06-19 16:52:02 +04:00
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
90be07fbf8 initial conf.d/vm.mk
After we have built a bare virtual machine image successfully
some variations are due, and these are to be described here.
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