update-guestfs-appliance(8)

update-guestfs-appliance8

Update the supermin appliance used by libguestfs

Usage

update-guestfs-appliance

Overview

update-guestfs-appliance creates or updates the supermin appliance for use with libguestfs. It uses febootstrap for this, therefore access to the package repository is needed.

A supermin appliance contains only lists of files and directories. The contents of the referenced files are only copied into an ad-hoc filesystem whenever libguestfs starts a virtual machine. Therefore, calling update-guestfs-appliance is only needed after libguestfs has been installed or when the filesystem layouts or dependencies of needed packages on the host system have been changed.

Files

/usr/lib/guestfs/make.sh (the script that does the actual work),

/usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles
/usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img

Author

update-guestfs-appliance and this manual page were written by Hilko Bengen <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

From libguestfs0 1:1.18.1-1+deb7u3 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.