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On baremetal you can build and customize a new guest in under 2
minutes. For example:
$ virt-builder fedora-19 \
--root-password password:test \
--install minicom \
--firstboot-command 'yum -y update' \
--firstboot-command 'useradd -m -p "" rjones ; chage -d 0 rjones'
[ 0.0] Downloading: file:///home/rjones/d/libguestfs/builder/website/fedora-19.xz
[ 1.0] Uncompressing: file:///home/rjones/d/libguestfs/builder/website/fedora-19.xz
[ 24.0] Running virt-resize to expand the disk to 4.2G
[ 77.0] Opening the new disk
[ 81.0] Installing packages: minicom
[ 94.0] Installing firstboot command: [001] yum -y update
[ 94.0] Installing firstboot command: [002] useradd -m -p "" rjones ; chage -d 0 rjones
[ 94.0] Finishing off
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If you are looking at this file at http://libguestfs.org/download/builder
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This directory is used by the libguestfs 'virt-builder' to store the
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clean, signed OS templates used for building new virtual machines.
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The index file is the default source URL and links to the other OS
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templates. It has the canonical URL:
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http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/index.asc
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If you are looking at this file in the git repository
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libguestfs.git/builder/website/ contains a copy of the website, minus
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the huge OS template files (because of their size, they are stored
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elsewhere and merged into the website when it is uploaded).
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When you use the ./run script to run virt-builder without installing,
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the ./run script sets $VIRT_BUILDER_SOURCE to point to this directory.
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If you actually want to use this configuration for anything except
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simple testing, you will have to download one or more OS templates
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from the libguestfs website and put them into the builder/website/
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directory.
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ie:
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./run ./builder/virt-builder fedora-20
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will fail unless you have downloaded fedora-20.xz here.
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Fedora guests
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The general plan for using kickstart and virt-install is outlined
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by Kashyap here:
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http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/unattended-guest-install-with-a-local-kickstart/
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If you want to reproduce the builds then the kickstart files are
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located in fedora-<N>.ks and the virt-install + other commands are in
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fedora-<N>.sh.
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