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author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2020-01-23 15:49:17 +0000 |
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committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2020-01-23 15:49:17 +0000 |
commit | 573817bc72b5f3273bcf2bca6e2d98e105c976b5 (patch) | |
tree | 4247f6a199896108f7ce7f8d1a1fb724c15d7ce4 /README.md | |
parent | 4afda13f9e30f96932b1d1ab28ef014a9ebaaa29 (diff) | |
download | lh-bootstrap-573817bc72b5f3273bcf2bca6e2d98e105c976b5.tar.xz |
Add run-qemu and disk image creation
Disk image creation depends on libguestfs, which is a huge
dependency, but people will only run it on dev machines already,
and it saves reinventing the wheel.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -232,12 +232,12 @@ been removed. ### Running on backends +To use qemu with lh-bootstrap, you need the qemu package installed +(obviously), and *also* the libguestfs package; some distributions +call it `libguestfs-tools`. (The lh-bootstrap uses the `virt-make-fs` +and `virt-copy-in` binaries.) + To launch qemu on an image you just created, run `./make qemu-boot`. This will start a qemu process running the image you just created. -You can look at the ./qemu-boot script to see exactly what it does. - -You can also "./make vmware-image" or "./make virtualbox-image" to create -a "disk-image.vmdk" file, which will be suitable as a main disk image -for VMWare or Virtualbox. Running those emulators, however, is out of -scope for this document. +You can look at the ./run-qemu script to see exactly what it does. |