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* Separate the high-level (building) from the low-level part (dumping)
* Introduce a subsection ("Working with Images"); not sure, if this is
useful under "Building Images"
* Enhance with some (general) advise about booting from USB
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Building Images
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.. hint::
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This document provides an overview about the supported KIWI image
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types. Before building an image with KIWI it's important to understand
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the different image types and their meaning.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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building/build_live_iso
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building/build_vmx_disk
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building/build_oem_disk
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building/build_pxe_root_filesystem
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building/build_docker_container
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building/build_containerized
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building/build_in_buildservice
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building/working_with_images
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* ISO Hybrid Live Image
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An iso image which can be dumped on a CD/DVD or USB stick
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and boots off from this media without interferring with other
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system storage components. A useful pocket system for testing
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and demo and debugging purposes.
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* Virtual Disk Image
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An image representing the system disk, useful for cloud frameworks
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like Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine or Microsoft Azure.
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* OEM Expandable Disk Image
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An image representing an expandable system disk. This means after
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deployment the system can resize itself to the new disk geometry.
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The resize operation is configurable as part of the image description
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and an installation image for CD/DVD, USB stick and Network deployment
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can be created in addition.
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* PXE root File System Image
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A root filesystem image which can be deployed via KIWI's PXE netboot
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infrastructure. A client configuration file on the pxe server controlls
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how the root filesystem image should be deployed. Many different
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deployment strategies are possible, e.g root over NBD, AoE or NFS for
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diskless and diskfull clients.
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* Docker Container Image
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An archive image suitable for the docker container engine.
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The image can be loaded via the `docker load` command and
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works within the scope of the container engine
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.. _supported-distributions:
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Supported Distributions
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KIWI can build the above image types for distributions
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which are **equal** or **newer** compared to the following list:
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* CentOS 7
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* Fedora 25
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* openSUSE Leap 42
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* Red Hat Enterprise 7
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* SUSE Linux Enterprise 12
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* Tumbleweed
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* Ubuntu Xenial
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For anything older please consider to use the legacy KIWI version *v7.x*
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For more details on the legacy kiwi, see: :ref:`legacy_kiwi`.
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