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Diffstat (limited to 'debvm-create')
| -rwxr-xr-x | debvm-create | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/debvm-create b/debvm-create index 5fc8950..65b3c54 100755 --- a/debvm-create +++ b/debvm-create @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ B<debvm-create> [B<-a> I<architecture>] [B<-h> I<hostname>] [B<-k> I<sshkey>] [B =head1 DESCRIPTION B<debvm-create> is essentially a thin wrapper around B<mmdebstrap> for creating a raw ext4 filesystem image for booting with B<debvm-run>. -The purpose of these images primarily is testing the different releases and architectures. +The purpose of these images primarily is testing the different releases and architectures without access to a physical machine of that architecture. Beyond essential packages, the image will contain B<apt>, an init system and a suitable kernel package. -Notably absent is a bootloader and partition table. +Notably absent is a bootloader and a partition table. In order to boot such an image, one is supposed to extract the kernel and initrd from the image and pass it to a suitable bootloader. No user account is created and root can login without specifying a password. @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ By default, it is written to B<rootfs.ext4>. =item B<-p> I<package> Request additional packages to be installed into the virtual machine image. -This option can be specified multiple times and packages can be separated with comma. +This option can be specified multiple times and packages can be separated by a comma. Package recommendations are not honoured. =item B<-r> I<release> |