1APPLIANCE-CREATOR(8)            Appliance Tools           APPLIANCE-CREATOR(8)
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NAME

6       appliance-creator, creates pre-installed appliance images and
7       meta-data.
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SYNOPSIS

10       appliance-creator [OPTIONS]
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DESCRIPTION

13       appliance-creator creates pre-installed appliance images from kickstart
14       files. Kickstart files contain the information about packages and
15       configurations that are built into the image.
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OPTIONS

18       -h, --help
19           Shows a help message and exits.
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IMAGE OPTIONS

22       These options define the created appliance image.
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24       -c KSCFG, --config=KSCFG
25           Path to kickstart config file
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27       -n NAME, --name=NAME
28           Name of appliance image to be created (default based on config
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31       -f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT
32           Disk format, this will take any input that qemu-img convert will
33           take (raw, qcow2, vmdk, ...) Note: not all disk formats with work
34           with all virt technologies.
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36       --vmem=VMEM
37           Amount of virtual memory for appliance in MB (default: 512)
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39       --vcpu=VCPU
40           Number of virtual cpus for appliance (default: 1)
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42       --checksum
43           Generate a checksum for the created appliance
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SYSTEM DIRECTORY OPTIONS

46       These options define the way the created Appliance is packaged
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48       -p PACKAGE, --package=PACKAGE
49           Package format, will package up output, disk images and meta into a
50           package.  Currently only "zip", "zip.64", "tar", "tar.gz",
51           "tar.bz2" are supported. (default is "none")
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53       -i INCLUDE, --include=INCLUDE
54           path to a file or dir to include in the appliance package
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56       -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR
57           output directory
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SYSTEM DIRECTORY OPTIONS

60       These options define directories used on your system for creating the
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63       -t TMPDIR, --tmpdir=TMPDIR
64           Temporary directory to use (default: /var/tmp)
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66       --cache=CACHEDIR
67           Cache directory to use (default: private cache)
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Debugging options

70       These options define extra options for debugging
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72       -d, --debug
73           Output debugging information
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75       -v, --verbose
76           Output verbose progress information
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78       --logfile=FILE
79           Save debug information to FILE
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EXAMPLES

82       Appliance Example
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84       appliance-creator \
85        -n ThinCrust --config
86       /usr/share/doc/appliance-tools-%{version}/aos-rawhide.ks \
87       --cache=/var/tmp/act
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CONTRIBUTORS

90       David Huff, Joey Boggs, Bryan kearney, Daniel P. Berrange, and a team
91       of other contributors.
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BUGS

94       Report bugs to the mailing list
95       "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/thincrust-devel-list" or
96       directly to BugZilla "http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/" against the
97       "Fedora" product, and the "appliance-tools" component.
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100       Copyright (C) Fedora Project 2008, and various contributors. This is
101       free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the
102       GNU General Public License "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html".
103       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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SEE ALSO

106       "qemu-img(1)","virt-iamge(1),"virt-iamge(5) project website
107       "http://thincrust.org/"""
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POD ERRORS

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