НАЗВА

       libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance - Make a "fixed appliance" for libguestfs

КОРОТКИЙ ОПИС

        libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance [--параметри] КАТАЛОГ_ВИВЕДЕННЯ

        libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance [--параметри] --xz

ОПИС

       libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance lets you make a pre-built binary appliance for libguestfs.

       Зауважте, що у звичайних користувачів не повинно виникнути потреби у запуску цієї
       програми.

       Some reasons why you might want to use this include:

       •   You want to make a self-contained libguestfs appliance that can be copied to another
           machine or platform that doesn't support supermin(8).

       •   You have multiple users on the same machine and want to avoid the storage duplication
           and start-up overhead of having multiple cached copies of the appliance.

       •   You want to have very predictable performance from libguestfs (see
           guestfs-performance(1)).

       For deeper understanding of why you might need this tool, read the section "FIXED
       APPLIANCE" below.

       Instead of running this tool, you can download fixed appliances from
       http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/.  These appliances were made using this
       tool.

       Передбачено два способи використання цього інструмента.

       •   Вказати каталог виведення даних, приклад:

            libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance /usr/local/lib/guestfs/appliance

           Якщо каталогу виведення даних ще не існує, його буде створено. У цьому каталозі буде
           створено чотири файли:

            <OUTPUTDIR>/kernel
            <OUTPUTDIR>/initrd
            <OUTPUTDIR>/root
            <OUTPUTDIR>/README.fixed

           Note that "OUTPUTDIR/root" is a sparse file, so take care when copying it.

           You can then run libguestfs (possibly after copying this directory to another machine)
           by setting the environment variable LIBGUESTFS_PATH to "OUTPUTDIR".

       •   The alternative method is to use the --xz option to create a compressed tarball:

            libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance --xz

           Буде створено архів у поточному каталозі з назвою:

            appliance-<ВЕРСІЯ>.tar.xz

           (where "VERSION" is the version of libguestfs).  The tarball contains the four files:

            appliance/kernel
            appliance/initrd
            appliance/root
            appliance/README.fixed

           Note that "appliance/root" is a sparse file, so take care when copying it.

ПАРАМЕТРИ

       --help
           Показати коротку довідку з користування і завершити роботу.

       -V
       --version
           Показати дані щодо версії і завершити роботу.

       --xz
           Instead of creating the appliance in an output directory, create a compressed tarball
           of the appliance in the current directory called "appliance-VERSION.tar.xz" where
           "VERSION" is the version of libguestfs.

           Using --xz can take some time.  If working normally, the tool is completely silent
           when it is running.

FIXED APPLIANCE

       When libguestfs (or libguestfs tools) are run, they search a path looking for an
       appliance.  The path is built into libguestfs, or can be set using the "LIBGUESTFS_PATH"
       environment variable.

       Normally a supermin appliance is located on this path (see "SUPERMIN APPLIANCE" in
       supermin(8)).  libguestfs reconstructs this into a full appliance by running
       supermin-helper(8).

       However, a simpler "fixed appliance" can also be used.  libguestfs detects this by looking
       for a directory on the path containing four files called "kernel", "initrd", "root" and
       "README.fixed" (note the "README.fixed" file must be present as well).

       If the fixed appliance is found, libguestfs skips supermin entirely and just runs qemu
       with the kernel, initrd and root disk from the fixed appliance.

       Thus the fixed appliance can be used when a platform or Linux distro does not support
       supermin.  You build the fixed appliance on a platform that does support supermin, and
       copy it over, and use that to run libguestfs.

УМОВИ ЛІЦЕНЗУВАННЯ

       The fixed appliance is a complete Linux binary distro.  If you distribute it, you may need
       to distribute corresponding source files to remain in legal compliance with the licenses
       of the software in the appliance (such as the GNU General Public License).

СТАН ВИХОДУ

       libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance returns 0 if the appliance was built without errors.

ЗМІННІ СЕРЕДОВИЩА

       For the full list of environment variables which may affect libguestfs, please see the
       guestfs(3) manual page.

ТАКОЖ ПЕРЕГЛЯНЬТЕ

       guestfs(3), supermin(8), supermin-helper(8), xz(1), http://libguestfs.org/,
       http://qemu.org/.

АВТОРИ

       Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")

АВТОРСЬКІ ПРАВА

       Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Red Hat Inc.

LICENSE

BUGS

       To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

       To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

       When reporting a bug, please supply:

       •   The version of libguestfs.

       •   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)

       •   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.

       •   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug
           report.