bionic (8) qemubuilder.8.gz

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NAME

       qemubuilder - a pbuilder wrapper for qemu.

SYNOPSIS

       qemubuilder create [options]

       qemubuilder update [options]

       qemubuilder build [options] .dsc-file

       qemubuilder login [options]

       qemubuilder execute [options] -- script [script options]

       qemubuilder dumpconfig

DESCRIPTION

       qemubuilder Executes the specified pbuilder operation with qemu

COMMANDS

       Most commands imitate pbuilder, see pbuilder manual for details.

       --create, create
              Create the base.qemu image.

       --update, update, up, u
              Update the base.qemu image.

       --build, build, b
              Build a package given a .dsc file

       --login, login, l
              Start a session within the base.qemu.

       --execute, execute, e
              Execute a command within the base.qemu.

       --dumpconfig, dumpconfig
              Dump configuration information, used for debugging.

OPTIONS

       Most options are the same as pbuilder, except for the following which are handled specially.

       --arch-diskdevice sd/hd
              Specify  whether  the  disk  device inside the virtual machine is called /dev/sda or /dev/hda. The
              possible values are 'sd' and 'hd'.

       --smp 2
              The option passed to SMP.

       I don't think I can support bind-mounts in qemu.

       Documentation here should be updated according to what's defined in parameter.c, but it isn't.

CONFIGURATION FILES

       qemubuilder reads the following configuration files per default.

       /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
              Application default, not to be changed.

       /etc/pbuilderrc
              System-wide default.

       ~/.pbuilderrc
              User default

       anything specified with --configfile option
              Additional configuration at runtime.

CONFIGURATION FILE OPTIONS

       The possible configuration options are as follows.  Others are ignored.

       DISTRIBUTION=distribution

       BUILDRESULT=directory

       BUILDPLACE=directory

       BASEPATH=path

       MIRRORSITE=http://mirror

       KERNEL_IMAGE=vmlinuz
              Linux kernel to use.

       INITRD=initrd
              Initrd to use.

       ARCHITECTURE=arch
              The target architecture.

              You can also use ARCH=arch for compatibility with 0.60 or older.

       MEMORY_MEGS=256
              Memory size to use in qemu session, in MB.

       ARCH_DISKDEVICE=hd
              The architecture-specific disk device  specifier.  Most  arches  use  sd  these  days.   The  only
              exceptions were i386 and amd64, which used to use hd.

       SMP=2  The SMP option for qemu.

EXAMPLES

       qemubuilder create
              Create a base.qemu image.

       qemubuilder update
              Update the base.qemu image.

       qemubuilder build test_0.1.dsc
              Build the package specified in dsc file, with the base.qemu image.

       pdebuild --pbuilder qemubuilder
              Run qemubuilder build against the current directory.  The current directory should be an extracted
              Debian source package directory.

              Edit /etc/pbuilderrc to have PDEBUILD_PBUILDER=qemubuilder to make this the default  behavior  for
              pdebuild.

       qemubuilder create --distribution sid --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.qemu
              Create a base.qemu image with the path /var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.qemu and distribution sid.

       Example pbuilderrc for i386
              KERNEL_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-k7
              INITRD=initrd.img-2.6.18-4-k7
              ARCHITECTURE=i386
              BASEPATH=/home/dancer/tmp/base-i386.qemu
              MEMORY_MEGS=256

       Note:  INITRD  may  or  may not be required for your system.  Debian Installer initrd may or may not work
       depending on which one you choose, use the one from an installed system.

CAVEATS

       Note that for mirror specification, http://localhost/debian/ usually doesn't work, it will  be  searching
       for files on the virtual machine itself, not the host OS.

AUTHOR

       Junichi Uekawa (dancer@debian.org)

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.html, pbuilder(8), pdebuild(1)