NAME

       update-guestfs-appliance - update the supermin appliance used by libguestfs

SYNOPSIS

       update-guestfs-appliance

DESCRIPTION

       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

SEE ALSO

       guestfish(1), guestmount(1), febootstrap(8), febootstrap-supermin-helper(8).

AUTHOR

       update-guestfs-appliance   and   this   manual   page   were   written   by  Hilko  Bengen
       <bengen@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

                                           August 2011                              LIBGUESTFS(8)