From 573817bc72b5f3273bcf2bca6e2d98e105c976b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:49:17 +0000 Subject: 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. --- README.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index afdf7a6..15764e3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.3