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Committer: Nick Barcet
Date: 2008-05-25 01:00:58 UTC
Revision ID: nick.barcet@canonical.com-20080525010058-bfd8tppfw78bklji

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Specify where vmware.tmpl is stored. Uses /usr/share/ubuntu-vm-builder/templates directory by default.

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.RE

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.SH EXEC EXPLANATIONS

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The --exec parameter allows to specify the full path name of a script that will be executed after the base system is installed (except grub) whose files hierarchy is in a directory named 'root' and has not yet been copied to the target virtual devices.

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The script is not in a chroot by default, so you can still copy file from the host file system (using full path name) to the destination files hierarchy which is in a subdirectory of the current working directory ($PWD) named 'root'.

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To execute commands in the target system's environment, you will need to prefix it with 'chroot root'.

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If the script returns an error, ubuntu-vm-builder will not continue to build the vm.

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It is recommended to keep this script non interactive.

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.TP

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.B Sample script

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cp -a ~/.gnome root/home/ubuntu/

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#Execute a command in the target system

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chroot root touch /var/log/syslog

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exit 0

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.SH AUTHOR

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