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Diffstat (limited to 'bin/debvm-create')
| -rwxr-xr-x | bin/debvm-create | 24 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/bin/debvm-create b/bin/debvm-create index 521ad36..1c7c29d 100755 --- a/bin/debvm-create +++ b/bin/debvm-create @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ debvm-create - Create a VM image for various Debian releases and architectures =head1 SYNOPSIS -B<debvm-create> [B<-a> I<architecture>] [B<-h> I<hostname>] [B<-k> F<sshkey>] [B<-o> F<output>] [B<-r> I<release>] [B<-s> <task>] [B<-z> I<size>] [B<--> I<mmdebstrap options>] +B<debvm-create> [B<-h> I<hostname>] [B<-k> F<sshkey>] [B<-o> F<output>] [B<-r> I<release>] [B<-s> <task>] [B<-z> I<size>] [B<--> I<mmdebstrap options>] =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -26,12 +26,6 @@ No user account is created and root can login without specifying a password. =over 8 -=item B<-a> I<architecture>, B<--architecture>=I<architecture> - -Specify a Debian architecture name. -By default, the native architecture is being used. -A suitable kernel image is automatically selected and installed into the image. - =item B<-h> I<hostname>, B<--hostname>=I<hostname> Set the hostname of the virtual machine. @@ -131,11 +125,16 @@ All options beyond a double dash are passed to B<mmdebstrap> after the suite and This can be used to provide additional hooks for image customization. You can also request additional packages to be installed into the image using B<mmdebstrap>'s B<--include> option. Any positional arguments passed here will be treated as mirror specifications by B<mmdebstrap>. +In particular, you can also change the architecture of the resulting image using the B<--architecture> option. =back =head1 EXAMPLES +When creating an image with multiple architectures, the kernel selection will prefer the sibling 64bit architecture. + + debvm-create ... -- --architecture=armhf,arm64 + In order to create images for Debian ports architectures, you can pass two options to mmdebstrap. debvm-create ... -- http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg @@ -172,7 +171,7 @@ POD2MAN set -u -ARCHITECTURE=$(dpkg --print-architecture) +ARCHITECTURE= IMAGE=rootfs.ext4 INITSYSTEM=systemd SIZE=1G @@ -193,7 +192,7 @@ die() { exit 1 } usage() { - die "usage: $0 [-a architecture] [-h hostname] [-k sshkey] [-o output] [-r release] [-s task] [-z size] [-- mmdebstrap options]" + die "usage: $0 [-h hostname] [-k sshkey] [-o output] [-r release] [-s task] [-z size] [-- mmdebstrap options]" } usage_error() { echo "error: $*" 1>&2 @@ -201,6 +200,8 @@ usage_error() { } opt_architecture() { + # This option only exists for backwards-compatibility. + # You can pass it as mmdebstrap option instead. ARCHITECTURE=$1 } opt_hostname() { @@ -303,10 +304,13 @@ set -- \ --verbose \ --variant=apt \ "--format=$MMFORMAT" \ - "--architecture=$ARCHITECTURE" \ '--customize-hook=echo "LABEL=debvm / ext4 defaults 0 0" >"$1/etc/fstab"' \ "$@" +if test -n "$ARCHITECTURE"; then + set -- "--architecture=$ARCHITECTURE" "$@" +fi + case "$INITSYSTEM" in busybox) set -- \ |