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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
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

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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

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