NAME

       autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud - Create Ubuntu cloud image based VM for autopkgtest-virt-qemu

SYNOPSIS

       autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud [options]

DESCRIPTION

       autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud downloads an Ubuntu cloud image and configures it for autopkgtest's QEMU
       runner (autopkgtest-virt-qemu):

       *   Resize  the  image  to  6  GB  (by  default,  you  can change this with an option), which ought to be
           sufficient for most tests.

       *   Create an user "ubuntu" with password "ubuntu".

       *   Add apt sources for "restricted" and "multiverse" components.

       *   Create an init.d script to start a root shell on ttyS1 at boot, so that autopkgtest-virt-qemu can  be
           used without additional arguments or logging in through ttyS0.

           You can select release, architecture, apt proxy, etc. with options. The defaults are aimed at testing
           the development series of the architecture of your host system.

OPTIONS

       -a arch | --arch=arch
              Ubuntu architecture name, e. g. "i386" or "amd64". Default is the host system architecture.

       -r codename | --release=codename
              Ubuntu  release  code  name, e. g. "trusty". Default is the current development series (this needs
              python-distro-info installed).

       -m URL | --mirror=URL
              Mirror for apt (default: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu).

       -p URL | --proxy=URL
              Proxy for apt. If you have an apt proxy configured on the local host, the  VM  will  automatically
              use this; otherwise there is no default.

       --cloud-image-url=URL
              URL from where to download the cloud images (default: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com).

       -s DISK_SIZE | --disk-size=DISK_SIZE
              Grow  downloaded  image  (which  have  a default size of 2GB) by this size (default: 4G, i. e. the
              image will be 6GB big in total).

       -o DIR | --output-dir=DIR
              Output directory for generated image (default: current directory).

       -q command | --qemu-command=command
              QEMU command to run. This defaults to the qemu-system-* that matches your system architecture.

       -v | --verbose
              Show VM guest and cloud-init output.

       --no-apt-upgrade
              Do not run apt-get dist-upgrade during initialization.

       --post-command=COMMAND
              Run shell command in the VM after the setup.

       --metadata=METADATA_FILE
              Use a custom cloud-init metadata file to initialize the cloud image VM.

       --userdata=USERDATA_FILE
              Use a custom cloud-init userdata file to initialize the cloud image VM.

       --timeout=SECONDS
              Timeout for cloud-init. Default is 3600 s.

CONFIGURATION FILES

       If you use lots of options, you can put parts of, or the whole command line into a text  file,  with  one
       line per option. E. g. you can create a file trusty-i386.cfg with contents like

              -rtrusty
              -ai386
              --proxy=http://mysquid.mynetwork
              -v

       and then run

              autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud @trusty-i386.cfg

       The  contents of the configuration file will be expanded in-place as if you would have given its contents
       on the command line. Please ensure that you don't place spaces between short options  and  their  values,
       they would become a part of the argument value.

SEE ALSO

       autopkgtest-virt-qemu(1), autopkgtest(1), http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com, /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/.

AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT

       autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud was written by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>

       This manpage is part of autopkgtest, a tool for testing Debian binary packages.  autopkgtest is Copyright
       (C) 2006-2014 Canonical Ltd and others.

       See /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/CREDITS for the list of contributors and full copying conditions.

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