NAME

       qemubuilder - a pbuilder wrapper for qemu.

SYNOPSIS

       qemubuilder [commands] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       qemubuilder Executes the specified pbuilder operation with qemu

COMMANDS

       Most commands imitate pbuilder, see pbuilder manual for details.

       --create

              Create the base.qemu image.

       --update

              Update the base.qemu image.

       --build .dsc-file

              Build a package given a .dsc file

       --login

              Start a session within the base.qemu.

       --execute

              Execute a command within the base.qemu.

       --dumpconfig

              dump configuration information.

       --arch-diskdevice sd/hd

              specify  whether  disk  device  inside  the  virtual  machine is called /dev/sda or
              /dev/hda. The possible value is 'sd' or 'hd'.

       --smp 2

              The option passed to SMP.

OPTIONS

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

       SMP 2

              The SMP option for qemu.

              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=64
              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.

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=64

              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)