appliance-creator - Man Page

appliance-creator [Options]

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.

-h,  --help

Shows a help message and exits.

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. raw images are xz compressed, qcow2 images use compression (unless disabled with --no-compress option.

--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

--no-compress

Disable image compression.

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

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)

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

Appliance Example

appliance-creator \
-n ThinCrust --config /usr/share/doc/appliance-tools-%{version}/aos-rawhide.ks \ --cache=/var/tmp/act

Dennis Gilmore, David Huff, Joey Boggs, Bryan kearney, Daniel P. Berrange, and a team of other contributors.

Report bugs directly to BugZilla http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ against the Fedora product, and the appliance-tools component.

Copyright (C) Fedora Project 2012, 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.

qemu-img(1),virt-image(1),virt-image(5)