NAME

       mic-image-convertor - Convert a virtual machine image to a live image

SYNOPSIS

       mic-image-convertor [options]

DESCRIPTION

       mic-image-convertor can convert a virtual machine image to a live image, this is specially
       for developers, they will use VMWare player or KVM or VirtualBox to run this image and do
       some changes in place, then they convert this changed image to a live image to run in a
       real device.

       mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for mic-image-convertor, you can use it if you prefer to
       use GUI instead of command line.

General OPTIONS

       --version                                  show version number and exit

       -h, --help                                 show this help message and exit

       -F SRCFORMAT, --source-format=SRCFORMAT    Source image format, possible values are: raw,
       vmdk or vdi (default: automatically detect image type).

       -I SRCIMG, --source-image=SRCIMG           Source image which was created by mic-image-
       creator or an image file system.

       -T DSTFORMAT, --target-format=DSTFORMAT    Target image format, possible values are:
       livecd and liveusb

       -t TMPDIR, --tmpdir=TMPDIR                 Temporary directory to use (default: /var/tmp)

       -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR                 Output directory to use (default: current work
       dir)

       -S SUFFIX, --suffix=SUFFIX                 Image name suffix (default: date stamp)

OPTIONS For Live USB

       -i, --interactive                          Directly write into a USB disk.

       --fstype=FSTYPE                            File system type for live USB image, ext3 or
       vfat, the default is vfat.

       --overlay-size-mb=OVERLAYSIZEMB            Overlay size in MB as unit, it means how size
       changes you can save in your live USB disk.

Debug OPTIONS

       -d, --debug         Output debugging information

       -v, --verbose       Output verbose progress information

       --logfile=FILE      Save debug information to FILE

EXAMPLES

       Convert a VMWare image to a live CD image:

       mic-image-convertor -I your-vmware-image.vmdk -T liveusb

EXIT STATUS

       mic-image-convertor returns  a  zero  exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-
       zero and print error message.

AUTHOR

       Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

SEE ALSO

       mic-image-creator(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-livecd-iso-to-disk(1),
       mic-image-manager(1)