appliance-creator (8) Linux Manual Page
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
- -h, –help
- Shows a help message and exits.
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.
See Also
"qemu-img(1)","virt-iamge(1),"virt-iamge(5) project website "http://thincrust.org/"""
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