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)