appliance-creator (8) - Linux Manuals
NAME
appliance-creator, creates pre-installed appliance images and meta-data.
SYNOPSIS
appliance-creator [OPTIONS]DESCRIPTION
appliance-creator creates pre-installed appliance images from kickstart files. Kickstart files contain the information about packages and configurations that are built into the image.OPTIONS
IMAGE OPTIONS
These options define the created appliance image.- -c KSCFG, --config=KSCFG
- Path to kickstart config file
- -n NAME, --name=NAME
- Name of appliance image to be created (default based on config name)
- -f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT
- Disk format, this will take any input that qemu-img convert will take (raw, qcow2, vmdk, ...) Note: not all disk formats with work with all virt technologies.
- --vmem=VMEM
- Amount of virtual memory for appliance in MB (default: 512)
- --vcpu=VCPU
- Number of virtual cpus for appliance (default: 1)
- --checksum
- Generate a checksum for the created appliance
SYSTEM DIRECTORY OPTIONS
These options define the way the created Appliance is packaged- -p PACKAGE, --package=PACKAGE
- Package format, will package up output, disk images and meta into a package. Currently only ``zip'', ``zip.64'', ``tar'', ``tar.gz'', ``tar.bz2'' are supported. (default is ``none'')
- -i INCLUDE, --include=INCLUDE
- path to a file or dir to include in the appliance package
- -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR
- output directory
SYSTEM DIRECTORY OPTIONS
These options define directories used on your system for creating the appliance image- -t TMPDIR, --tmpdir=TMPDIR
- Temporary directory to use (default: /var/tmp)
- --cache=CACHEDIR
- Cache directory to use (default: private cache)
Debugging options
These options define extra options for debugging- -d, --debug
- Output debugging information
- -v, --verbose
- Output verbose progress information
- --logfile=FILE
- Save debug information to FILE
EXAMPLES
Appliance Example
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CONTRIBUTORS
David Huff, Joey Boggs, Bryan kearney, Daniel P. Berrange, and a team of other contributors.
BUGS
Report bugs to the mailing list "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/thincrust-devel-list" or directly to BugZilla "http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/" against the "Fedora" product, and the "appliance-tools" component.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) Fedora Project 2008, and various contributors. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html". There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
POD ERRORS
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