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.TH VMBUILDER 1 "Oct 2008"
.SH NAME
vmbuilder \- builds virtual machines from the command line
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B vmbuilder <hypervisor> <distro>
[\fIOPTIONS\fR]...
.TP
<hypervisor> Hypervisor image format. Valid options: xen kvm vmw6 vmserver
.TP
<distro> Distribution. Valid options: ubuntu
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the
.B vmbuilder
command.
.B vmbuilder
is a program that builds virtual machines from the command line, but can have other interfaces implemented through its plugin mechanism. You can pass command line options to add extra packages, remove packages, choose which version of Ubuntu, which mirror etc. On recent hardware with plenty of RAM, tmpdir in /dev/shm or using a tmpfs, and a local mirror (see apt-proxy or apt-mirror), you can bootstrap a vm in less than a minute.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B NOTE:
Only common basic options are described here. Many options can be added through plugins and others, they depends on the hypervisor and distro you specify. Please use
.B vmbuilder <hypervisor> <distro> --help
for a full options list.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show this help message and exit.
.TP
.B \-c ALTCONFIG \-\-config
Specify the path to an optional configuration file. [default:None]. /etc/vmbuilder.cfg and ~/.vmbuilder.cfg are always read if present. The content of the configuration file is explained at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOSVMBuilder#Using%20configuration%20files.
.TP
.B \-d DEST, \-\-dest DEST
Specify the destination directory. [default:<hypervisor>-<distro>]. Config option: destdir.
.TP
.B \-\-debug
Show (a lot of) debug information
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-verbose
Show progress information
.TP
.B \-q, \-\-quiet
Silent operation
.TP
.B \-t TMP, \-\-tmp TMP
Use TMP as temporary working space for image generation. Defaults to $TMPDIR if it is defined or /tmp otherwise. [default: /tmp]
.TP
.B \-\-templates DIR
Prepends dir to template search path. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOSVMBuilder#Modifying%20the%20libvirt%20template%20to%20use%20bridging for an example.
.TP
.B \-o, \-\-overwrite
Force overwrite of destination directory if it already exist. [default: False]
.TP
.B \-\-in-place
Install directly into the filesystem images. This is needed if your $TMPDIR is nodev and/or nosuid, but will result in slightly larger file system images.
.TP
.B \-\-tmpfs OPTS
Use a tmpfs as the working directory, specifying its size or "-" to use tmpfs default (suid,dev,size=1G).
.TP
.B \-m MEM, \-\-mem MEM
Assign MEM megabytes of memory to the guest vm. [default: 128]
.SS Guest partitioning options
.TP
.B \-\-part PATH
Allows to specify a partition table in PATH each line of partfile should specify (root first):
.RS
.RS
mountpoint size
.RE
one per line, separated by space, where size is in megabytes. You can have up to 4
virtual disks, a new disk starts on a line containing only '---'. ie:
.RS
root 2000
/boot 512
swap 1000
---
/var 8000
/var/log 2000
.RE
.RE
.TP
The following three options are not used if --part is specified:
.RS
.TP
.B \-\-rootsize SIZE
Size (in MB) of the root filesystem [default: 4096]. Discarded when --part is used.
.TP
.B \-\-optsize SIZE
Size (in MB) of the /opt filesystem. If not set, no /opt filesystem will be added. Discarded when --part is used.
.TP
.B \-\-swapsize SIZE
Size (in MB) of the swap partition [default: 1024]. Discarded when --part is used.
.RS
.SS Network related options:
.TP
.B \-\-domain DOMAIN
Set DOMAIN as the domain name of the guest. Default: The domain of the machine running this script.
.TP
.B \-\-ip ADDRESS
IP address in dotted form [default: dhcp]
.TP
Options below are discarded if \-\-ip is not specified
.RS
.B \-\-mask VALUE
IP mask in dotted form [default: based on ip setting].
.TP
.B \-\-net ADDRESS
IP net address in dotted form [default: based on ip setting].
.TP
.B \-\-bcast VALUE
IP broadcast in dotted form [default: based on ip setting].
.TP
.B \-\-gw ADDRESS
Gateway (router) address in dotted form [default: based on ip setting (first valid address in the network)].
.TP
.B \-\-dns ADDRESS
DNS address in dotted form [default: based on ip setting (first valid address in the network)]
.RE
.SS Post install actions:
.TP
.B \-\-copy FILE
Read 'source dest' lines from FILE, copying source files from host to dest in the guest's file system.
.TP
.B \-\-execscript SCRIPT, \-\-exec SCRIPT
Run SCRIPT after distro installation finishes. Script will be called with the guest's chroot as first argument, so you can use
.B chroot $1 <cmd>
to run code in the virtual machine.
.SS libvirt integration:
.TP
.B \-\-libvirt=URI
Add VM to given URI
.SS Scripts:
.TP
.B \-\-firstboot PATH
Specify a script that will be copied into the guest and executed the first time the machine boots. This script must not be interactive.
.TP
.B \-\-firstlogin PATH
Specify a script that will be copied into the guest and will be executed the first time the user logs in. This script can be interactive.
.SH DEVELOPMENT
.B vmbuilder
is a python program that offers a very simple mechanism to increase functionalities, interfaces, support other distribution and hypervisors. Feel free to join the project at https://launchpad.net/vmbuilder
.SH COMPATIBILTY
.B vmbuilder
includes a command line interface compatibility with its ancestor
.B ubuntu-vm-builder.
This compatibility does not include template or configration files which now use a newer format. Programs or script that were relying on ubuntu-vm-builder should continue working without any issues if the do not use templates or configuration files.
.SH SUPPORT
Feel free to join #ubuntu-virt on freenode to get some help or just say hello.
.SH SEE ALSO
apt-proxy(8), apt-mirror(8)
.TP
The vmbuilder tutorial available at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOSVMBuilder
.TP
The CheetahTemplate documentation for syntax of the template files at http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/docs/users_guide_html/
.SH AUTHOR
vmbuilder is Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Canonical Ltd. and written by Soren Hansen <soren@canonical.com> with the help of others, see /usr/share/doc/python-vm-builder/AUTHORS for more details.
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