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<h1>livemedia-creator<a class="headerlink" href="#livemedia-creator" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Authors:</th><td class="field-body">Brian C. Lane <<a class="reference external" href="mailto:bcl%40redhat.com">bcl<span>@</span>redhat<span>.</span>com</a>></td>
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<p>livemedia-creator uses <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda">Anaconda</a>,
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<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/rhinstaller/pykickstart">kickstart</a> and <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/rhinstaller/lorax">Lorax</a> to create bootable media that use the
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same install path as a normal system installation. It can be used to make live
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isos, bootable (partitioned) disk images, tarfiles, and filesystem images for
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use with virtualization and container solutions like libvirt, docker, and
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OpenStack.</p>
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<p>The general idea is to use qemu with kickstart and an Anaconda boot.iso to
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install into a disk image and then use the disk image to create the bootable
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media.</p>
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<p>livemedia-creator –help will describe all of the options available. At the
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minimum you need:</p>
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<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--make-iso</span></code> to create a final bootable .iso or one of the other <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--make-*</span></code> options.</p>
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<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--iso</span></code> to specify the Anaconda install media to use with qemu.</p>
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<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--ks</span></code> to select the kickstart file describing what to install.</p>
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<p>To use livemedia-creator with virtualization you will need to have qemu-kvm installed.</p>
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<p>If you are going to be using Anaconda directly, with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--no-virt</span></code> mode, make sure
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you have the anaconda-tui package installed.</p>
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<p>Conventions used in this document:</p>
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<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">lmc</span></code> is an abbreviation for livemedia-creator.</p>
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<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">builder</span></code> is the system where livemedia-creator is being run</p>
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<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">image</span></code> is the disk image being created by running livemedia-creator</p>
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<div class="section" id="livemedia-creator-cmdline-arguments">
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<h2>livemedia-creator cmdline arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#livemedia-creator-cmdline-arguments" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>Create Live Install Media</p>
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<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">usage</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">livemedia</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">creator</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">h</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">(</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">iso</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">disk</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">fsimage</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">appliance</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">ami</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">tar</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">tar</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">disk</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">pxe</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">live</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">ostree</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">live</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">oci</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">vagrant</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">iso</span> <span class="n">ISO</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">iso</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">only</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">iso</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">name</span> <span class="n">ISO_NAME</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ks</span> <span class="n">KS</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">only</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">no</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">virt</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">proxy</span> <span class="n">PROXY</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">anaconda</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">arg</span> <span class="n">ANACONDA_ARGS</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">armplatform</span> <span class="n">ARMPLATFORM</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">location</span> <span class="n">LOCATION</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">logfile</span> <span class="n">LOGFILE</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">lorax</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">templates</span> <span class="n">LORAX_TEMPLATES</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">tmp</span> <span class="n">TMP</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">resultdir</span> <span class="n">RESULT_DIR</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">macboot</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">nomacboot</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">extra</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">boot</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">args</span> <span class="n">EXTRA_BOOT_ARGS</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">disk</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">image</span> <span class="n">DISK_IMAGE</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">keep</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">fs</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">image</span> <span class="n">FS_IMAGE</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">name</span> <span class="n">IMAGE_NAME</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">tar</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">disk</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">name</span> <span class="n">TAR_DISK_NAME</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">fs</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">label</span> <span class="n">FS_LABEL</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">size</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">align</span> <span class="n">IMAGE_SIZE_ALIGN</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nb">type</span> <span class="n">IMAGE_TYPE</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">qemu</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">arg</span> <span class="n">QEMU_ARGS</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">qcow2</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">qcow2</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">arg</span> <span class="n">QEMU_ARGS</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">compression</span> <span class="n">COMPRESSION</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">compress</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">arg</span> <span class="n">COMPRESS_ARGS</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">app</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">name</span> <span class="n">APP_NAME</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">app</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">template</span> <span class="n">APP_TEMPLATE</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">app</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">file</span> <span class="n">APP_FILE</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ram</span> <span class="n">MEMORY</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">vcpus</span> <span class="n">VCPUS</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">vnc</span> <span class="n">VNC</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">arch</span> <span class="n">ARCH</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">kernel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">args</span> <span class="n">KERNEL_ARGS</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ovmf</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">path</span> <span class="n">OVMF_PATH</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">virt</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">uefi</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">no</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">kvm</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="k">with</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">rng</span> <span class="n">WITH_RNG</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">dracut</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">arg</span> <span class="n">DRACUT_ARGS</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">live</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">rootfs</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">size</span> <span class="n">LIVE_ROOTFS_SIZE</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">live</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">rootfs</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">keep</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">size</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">oci</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">config</span> <span class="n">OCI_CONFIG</span><span class="p">]</span>
|
||
<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">oci</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">runtime</span> <span class="n">OCI_RUNTIME</span><span class="p">]</span>
|
||
<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">vagrant</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">metadata</span> <span class="n">VAGRANT_METADATA</span><span class="p">]</span>
|
||
<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">vagrantfile</span> <span class="n">VAGRANTFILE</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">title</span> <span class="n">TITLE</span><span class="p">]</span>
|
||
<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">project</span> <span class="n">PROJECT</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">releasever</span> <span class="n">RELEASEVER</span><span class="p">]</span>
|
||
<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">volid</span> <span class="n">VOLID</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">squashfs_args</span> <span class="n">SQUASHFS_ARGS</span><span class="p">]</span>
|
||
<span class="p">[</span><span class="o">--</span><span class="n">timeout</span> <span class="n">TIMEOUT</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">V</span><span class="p">]</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="Named Arguments">
|
||
<h3>Named Arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#Named Arguments" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
|
||
<col class="option" />
|
||
<col class="description" />
|
||
<tbody valign="top">
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--make-iso</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Build a live iso</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--make-disk</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Build a partitioned disk image</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--make-fsimage</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Build a filesystem image</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--make-appliance</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first">Build an appliance image and XML description</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--make-ami</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Build an ami image</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--make-tar</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Build a tar of the root filesystem</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--make-tar-disk</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first">Build a tar of a partitioned disk image</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--make-pxe-live</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first">Build a live pxe boot squashfs image</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--make-ostree-live</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first">Build a live pxe boot squashfs image of Atomic Host</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--make-oci</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Build an Open Container Initiative image</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--make-vagrant</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Build a Vagrant Box image</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--iso</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Anaconda installation .iso path to use for qemu</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--iso-only</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Remove all iso creation artifacts except the boot.iso, combine with –iso-name to rename the boot.iso</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--iso-name</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Name of output iso file for –iso-only. Default is boot.iso</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--ks</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Kickstart file defining the install.</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--image-only</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Exit after creating fs/disk image.</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--no-virt</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Run anaconda directly on host instead of using qemu</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--proxy</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>proxy URL to use for the install</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--anaconda-arg</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Additional argument to pass to anaconda (no-virt mode). Pass once for each argument</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--armplatform</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>the platform to use when creating images for ARM, i.e., highbank, mvebu, omap, tegra, etc.</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--location</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>location of iso directory tree with initrd.img and vmlinuz. Used to run qemu with a newer initrd than the iso.</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--logfile</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Name and path for primary logfile, other logs will be created in the same directory.</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: ./livemedia.log</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--lorax-templates</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td>Path to mako templates for lorax</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--tmp</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Top level temporary directory</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: /var/tmp</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--resultdir</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Directory to copy the resulting images and iso into. Defaults to the temporary working directory</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--macboot</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Default: True</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--nomacboot</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Default: True</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--extra-boot-args</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first">Extra arguments to add to the bootloader kernel cmdline in the templates</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: “”</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--title</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Substituted for @TITLE@ in bootloader config files</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: “Linux Live Media”</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--project</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">substituted for @PROJECT@ in bootloader config files</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: “Linux”</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--releasever</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">substituted for @VERSION@ in bootloader config files</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: “8”</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--volid</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>volume id</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--squashfs_args</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td>additional squashfs args</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--timeout</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Cancel installer after X minutes</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>-V</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>show program’s version number and exit</td></tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="disk/fs image arguments">
|
||
<h3>disk/fs image arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#disk/fs image arguments" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
|
||
<col class="option" />
|
||
<col class="description" />
|
||
<tbody valign="top">
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--disk-image</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Path to existing disk image to use for creating final image.</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--keep-image</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Keep raw disk image after .iso creation</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--fs-image</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Path to existing filesystem image to use for creating final image.</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--image-name</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Name of output file to create. Used for tar, fs and disk image. Default is a random name.</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--tar-disk-name</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td>Name of the archive member for make-tar-disk.</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--fs-label</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Label to set on fsimage, default is ‘Anaconda’</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: “Anaconda”</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--image-size-align</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first">Create a disk image with a size that is a multiple of this value in MiB.</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: 0</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--image-type</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Create an image with qemu-img. See qemu-img –help for supported formats.</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--qemu-arg</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Arguments to pass to qemu-img. Pass once for each argument, they will be used for ALL calls to qemu-img.</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: []</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--qcow2</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Create qcow2 image instead of raw sparse image when making disk images.</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--qcow2-arg</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Arguments to pass to qemu-img. Pass once for each argument, they will be used for ALL calls to qemu-img.</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: []</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--compression</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Compression binary for make-tar. xz, lzma, gzip, and bzip2 are supported. xz is the default.</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: “xz”</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--compress-arg</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Arguments to pass to compression. Pass once for each argument</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: []</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="appliance arguments">
|
||
<h3>appliance arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#appliance arguments" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
|
||
<col class="option" />
|
||
<col class="description" />
|
||
<tbody valign="top">
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--app-name</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Name of appliance to pass to template</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--app-template</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Path to template to use for appliance data.</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--app-file</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Appliance template results file.</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: “appliance.xml”</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="qemu arguments">
|
||
<h3>qemu arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#qemu arguments" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
|
||
<col class="option" />
|
||
<col class="description" />
|
||
<tbody valign="top">
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--ram</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Memory to allocate for installer in megabytes.</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: 1024</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--vcpus</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Passed to qemu -smp command</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--vnc</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Passed to qemu -display command. eg. vnc=127.0.0.1:5, default is to choose the first unused vnc port.</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--arch</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>System arch to build for. Used to select qemu-system-* command. Defaults to qemu-system-<arch></td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--kernel-args</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Additional argument to pass to the installation kernel</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--ovmf-path</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Path to OVMF firmware</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: “/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/”</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--virt-uefi</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Use OVMF firmware to boot the VM in UEFI mode</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--no-kvm</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">Skip using kvm with qemu even if it is available.</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--with-rng</kbd></td>
|
||
<td><p class="first">RNG device for QEMU (none for no RNG)</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: “/dev/random”</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="dracut arguments">
|
||
<h3>dracut arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#dracut arguments" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
|
||
<col class="option" />
|
||
<col class="description" />
|
||
<tbody valign="top">
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--dracut-arg</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>Argument to pass to dracut when rebuilding the initramfs. Pass this once for each argument. NOTE: this overrides the default. (default: )</td></tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="pxe to live arguments">
|
||
<h3>pxe to live arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#pxe to live arguments" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
|
||
<col class="option" />
|
||
<col class="description" />
|
||
<tbody valign="top">
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--live-rootfs-size</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first">Size of root filesystem of live image in GiB</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: 0</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--live-rootfs-keep-size</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first">Keep the original size of root filesystem in live image</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Default: False</p>
|
||
</td></tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="OCI arguments">
|
||
<h3>OCI arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#OCI arguments" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
|
||
<col class="option" />
|
||
<col class="description" />
|
||
<tbody valign="top">
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--oci-config</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>config.json OCI configuration file</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--oci-runtime</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>runtime.json OCI configuration file</td></tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="Vagrant arguments">
|
||
<h3>Vagrant arguments<a class="headerlink" href="#Vagrant arguments" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
|
||
<col class="option" />
|
||
<col class="description" />
|
||
<tbody valign="top">
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
|
||
<kbd>--vagrant-metadata</kbd></td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr><td> </td><td>optional metadata.json file</td></tr>
|
||
<tr><td class="option-group">
|
||
<kbd>--vagrantfile</kbd></td>
|
||
<td>optional vagrantfile</td></tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="quickstart">
|
||
<h2>Quickstart<a class="headerlink" href="#quickstart" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>Run this to create a bootable live iso:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">sudo</span> <span class="n">livemedia</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">creator</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">iso</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">iso</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">extra</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">iso</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">boot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">iso</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ks</span><span class="o">=./</span><span class="n">docs</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">livemedia</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ks</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>You can run it directly from the lorax git repo like this:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>sudo PATH=./src/sbin/:$PATH PYTHONPATH=./src/ ./src/sbin/livemedia-creator \
|
||
--make-iso --iso=/extra/iso/boot.iso \
|
||
--ks=./docs/rhel-livemedia.ks --lorax-templates=./share/
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>You can observe the installation using vnc. The logs will show what port was
|
||
chosen, or you can use a specific port by passing it. eg. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--vnc</span> <span class="pre">vnc:127.0.0.1:5</span></code></p>
|
||
<p>This is usually a good idea when testing changes to the kickstart. lmc tries
|
||
to monitor the logs for fatal errors, but may not catch everything.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="how-iso-creation-works">
|
||
<h2>How ISO creation works<a class="headerlink" href="#how-iso-creation-works" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>There are 2 stages, the install stage which produces a disk or filesystem image
|
||
as its output, and the boot media creation which uses the image as its input.
|
||
Normally you would run both stages, but it is possible to stop after the
|
||
install stage, by using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--image-only</span></code>, or to skip the install stage and use
|
||
a previously created disk image by passing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--disk-image</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--fs-image</span></code></p>
|
||
<p>When creating an iso qemu boots using the passed Anaconda installer iso
|
||
and installs the system based on the kickstart. The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%post</span></code> section of the
|
||
kickstart is used to customize the installed system in the same way that
|
||
current spin-kickstarts do.</p>
|
||
<p>livemedia-creator monitors the install process for problems by watching the
|
||
install logs. They are written to the current directory or to the base
|
||
directory specified by the –logfile command. You can also monitor the install
|
||
by using a vnc client. This is recommended when first modifying a kickstart,
|
||
since there are still places where Anaconda may get stuck without the log
|
||
monitor catching it.</p>
|
||
<p>The output from this process is a partitioned disk image. kpartx can be used
|
||
to mount and examine it when there is a problem with the install. It can also
|
||
be booted using kvm.</p>
|
||
<p>When creating an iso the disk image’s / partition is copied into a formatted
|
||
filesystem image which is then used as the input to lorax for creation of the
|
||
final media.</p>
|
||
<p>The final image is created by lorax, using the templates in /usr/share/lorax/live/
|
||
or the live directory below the directory specified by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--lorax-templates</span></code>. The
|
||
templates are written using the Mako template system with some extra commands
|
||
added by lorax.</p>
|
||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||
<p class="last">The output from –make-iso includes the artifacts used to create the boot.iso;
|
||
the kernel, initrd, the squashfs filesystem, etc. If you only want the
|
||
boot.iso you can pass <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--iso-only</span></code> and the other files will be removed. You
|
||
can also name the iso by using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--iso-name</span> <span class="pre">my-live.iso</span></code>.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="kickstarts">
|
||
<h2>Kickstarts<a class="headerlink" href="#kickstarts" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>The docs/ directory includes several example kickstarts, one to create a live
|
||
desktop iso using GNOME, and another to create a minimal disk image. When
|
||
creating your own kickstarts you should start with the minimal example, it
|
||
includes several needed packages that are not always included by dependencies.</p>
|
||
<p>Or you can use existing spin kickstarts to create live media with a few
|
||
changes. Here are the steps I used to convert the Fedora XFCE spin.</p>
|
||
<ol class="arabic">
|
||
<li><p class="first">Flatten the xfce kickstart using ksflatten</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Add zerombr so you don’t get the disk init dialog</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Add clearpart –all</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Add swap partition</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">bootloader target</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Add shutdown to the kickstart</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Add network –bootproto=dhcp –activate to activate the network
|
||
This works for F16 builds but for F15 and before you need to pass
|
||
something on the cmdline that activate the network, like sshd:</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<div><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">livemedia-creator</span> <span class="pre">--kernel-args="sshd"</span></code></p>
|
||
</div></blockquote>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Add a root password:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">rootpw</span> <span class="n">rootme</span>
|
||
<span class="n">network</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">bootproto</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">dhcp</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">activate</span>
|
||
<span class="n">zerombr</span>
|
||
<span class="n">clearpart</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="nb">all</span>
|
||
<span class="n">bootloader</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">location</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">mbr</span>
|
||
<span class="n">part</span> <span class="n">swap</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">size</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">512</span>
|
||
<span class="n">shutdown</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">In the livesys script section of the %post remove the root password. This
|
||
really depends on how the spin wants to work. You could add the live user
|
||
that you create to the %wheel group so that sudo works if you wanted to.</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<div><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">passwd</span> <span class="pre">-d</span> <span class="pre">root</span> <span class="pre">></span> <span class="pre">/dev/null</span></code></p>
|
||
</div></blockquote>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Remove /etc/fstab in %post, dracut handles mounting the rootfs</p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cat</span> <span class="pre">/dev/null</span> <span class="pre">></span> <span class="pre">/dev/fstab</span></code></p>
|
||
<p>Do this only for live iso’s, the filesystem will be mounted read only if
|
||
there is no /etc/fstab</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Don’t delete initramfs files from /boot in %post</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">When creating live iso’s you need to have, at least, these packages in the %package section::
|
||
dracut-config-generic
|
||
dracut-live
|
||
-dracut-config-rescue
|
||
grub-efi
|
||
memtest86+
|
||
syslinux</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
<p>One drawback to using qemu is that it pulls the packages from the repo each
|
||
time you run it. To speed things up you either need a local mirror of the
|
||
packages, or you can use a caching proxy. When using a proxy you pass it to
|
||
livemedia-creator like this:</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<div><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--proxy=http://proxy.yourdomain.com:3128</span></code></div></blockquote>
|
||
<p>You also need to use a specific mirror instead of mirrormanager so that the
|
||
packages will get cached, so your kickstart url would look like:</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<div><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">url</span> <span class="pre">--url="http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/x86_64/os/"</span></code></div></blockquote>
|
||
<p>You can also add an update repo, but don’t name it updates. Add –proxy to it
|
||
as well.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="anaconda-image-install-no-virt">
|
||
<h2>Anaconda image install (no-virt)<a class="headerlink" href="#anaconda-image-install-no-virt" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>You can create images without using qemu by passing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--no-virt</span></code> on the
|
||
cmdline. This will use Anaconda’s directory install feature to handle the
|
||
install. There are a couple of things to keep in mind when doing this:</p>
|
||
<ol class="arabic simple">
|
||
<li>It will be most reliable when building images for the same release that the
|
||
host is running. Because Anaconda has expectations about the system it is
|
||
running under you may encounter strange bugs if you try to build newer or
|
||
older releases.</li>
|
||
<li>It may totally trash your host. So far I haven’t had this happen, but the
|
||
possibility exists that a bug in Anaconda could result in it operating on
|
||
real devices. I recommend running it in a virt or on a system that you can
|
||
afford to lose all data from.</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
<p>The logs from anaconda will be placed in an ./anaconda/ directory in either
|
||
the current directory or in the directory used for –logfile</p>
|
||
<p>Example cmdline:</p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">livemedia-creator</span> <span class="pre">--make-iso</span> <span class="pre">--no-virt</span> <span class="pre">--ks=./rhel-livemedia.ks</span></code></p>
|
||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||
<p class="last">Using no-virt to create a partitioned disk image (eg. –make-disk or
|
||
–make-vagrant) will only create disks usable on the host platform (BIOS
|
||
or UEFI). You can create BIOS partitioned disk images on UEFI by using
|
||
virt.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||
<p class="last">As of version 30.7 SELinux can be set to Enforcing. The current state is
|
||
logged for debugging purposes and if there are SELinux denials they should
|
||
be reported as a bug.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="ami-images">
|
||
<h2>AMI Images<a class="headerlink" href="#ami-images" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>Amazon EC2 images can be created by using the –make-ami switch and an appropriate
|
||
kickstart file. All of the work to customize the image is handled by the kickstart.
|
||
The example currently included was modified from the cloud-kickstarts version so
|
||
that it would work with livemedia-creator.</p>
|
||
<p>Example cmdline:</p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">livemedia-creator</span> <span class="pre">--make-ami</span> <span class="pre">--iso=/path/to/boot.iso</span> <span class="pre">--ks=./docs/rhel-livemedia-ec2.ks</span></code></p>
|
||
<p>This will produce an ami-root.img file in the working directory.</p>
|
||
<p>At this time I have not tested the image with EC2. Feedback would be welcome.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="appliance-creation">
|
||
<h2>Appliance Creation<a class="headerlink" href="#appliance-creation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>livemedia-creator can now replace appliance-tools by using the –make-appliance
|
||
switch. This will create the partitioned disk image and an XML file that can be
|
||
used with virt-image to setup a virtual system.</p>
|
||
<p>The XML is generated using the Mako template from
|
||
/usr/share/lorax/appliance/libvirt.xml You can use a different template by
|
||
passing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--app-template</span> <span class="pre"><template</span> <span class="pre">path></span></code></p>
|
||
<p>Documentation on the Mako template system can be found at the <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.makotemplates.org/en/latest/index.html">Mako site</a></p>
|
||
<p>The name of the final output XML is appliance.xml, this can be changed with
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--app-file</span> <span class="pre"><file</span> <span class="pre">path></span></code></p>
|
||
<p>The following variables are passed to the template:</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<div><dl class="docutils">
|
||
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">disks</span></code></dt>
|
||
<dd><p class="first">A list of disk_info about each disk.
|
||
Each entry has the following attributes:</p>
|
||
<blockquote class="last">
|
||
<div><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">name</span></code>
|
||
base name of the disk image file</p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">format</span></code>
|
||
“raw”</p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">checksum_type</span></code>
|
||
“sha256”</p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">checksum</span></code>
|
||
sha256 checksum of the disk image</p>
|
||
</div></blockquote>
|
||
</dd>
|
||
</dl>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">name</span></code>
|
||
Name of appliance, from –app-name argument</p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arch</span></code>
|
||
Architecture</p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">memory</span></code>
|
||
Memory in KB (from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--ram</span></code>)</p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vcpus</span></code>
|
||
from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--vcpus</span></code></p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">networks</span></code>
|
||
list of networks from the kickstart or []</p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">title</span></code>
|
||
from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--title</span></code></p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">project</span></code>
|
||
from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--project</span></code></p>
|
||
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">releasever</span></code>
|
||
from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--releasever</span></code></p>
|
||
</div></blockquote>
|
||
<p>The created image can be imported into libvirt using:</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<div><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">virt-image</span> <span class="pre">appliance.xml</span></code></div></blockquote>
|
||
<p>You can also create qcow2 appliance images using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--image-type=qcow2</span></code>, for example:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">sudo</span> <span class="n">livemedia</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">creator</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">appliance</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">iso</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">boot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">iso</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ks</span><span class="o">=./</span><span class="n">docs</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">minimal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ks</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nb">type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">qcow2</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">app</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">file</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">minimal</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">test</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xml</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">minimal</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">test</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">img</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="filesystem-image-creation">
|
||
<h2>Filesystem Image Creation<a class="headerlink" href="#filesystem-image-creation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>livemedia-creator can be used to create un-partitined filesystem images using
|
||
the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--make-fsimage</span></code> option. As of version 21.8 this works with both qemu and
|
||
no-virt modes of operation. Previously it was only available with no-virt.</p>
|
||
<p>Kickstarts should have a single / partition with no extra mountpoints.</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<div><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">livemedia-creator</span> <span class="pre">--make-fsimage</span> <span class="pre">--iso=/path/to/boot.iso</span> <span class="pre">--ks=./docs/rhel-minimal.ks</span></code></div></blockquote>
|
||
<p>You can name the output image with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--image-name</span></code> and set a label on the filesystem with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--fs-label</span></code></p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="tar-file-creation">
|
||
<h2>TAR File Creation<a class="headerlink" href="#tar-file-creation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--make-tar</span></code> command can be used to create a tar of the root filesystem. By
|
||
default it is compressed using xz, but this can be changed using the
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--compression</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--compress-arg</span></code> options. This option works with both virt and
|
||
no-virt install methods.</p>
|
||
<p>As with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--make-fsimage</span></code> the kickstart should be limited to a single / partition.</p>
|
||
<p>For example:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">livemedia</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">creator</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">tar</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">iso</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">boot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">iso</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ks</span><span class="o">=./</span><span class="n">docs</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">minimal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ks</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">root</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tar</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xz</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="live-image-for-pxe-boot">
|
||
<h2>Live Image for PXE Boot<a class="headerlink" href="#live-image-for-pxe-boot" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--make-pxe-live</span></code> command will produce squashfs image containing live root
|
||
filesystem that can be used for pxe boot. Directory with results will contain
|
||
the live image, kernel image, initrd image and template of pxe configuration
|
||
for the images.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="atomic-live-image-for-pxe-boot">
|
||
<h2>Atomic Live Image for PXE Boot<a class="headerlink" href="#atomic-live-image-for-pxe-boot" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--make-ostree-live</span></code> command will produce the same result as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--make-pxe-live</span></code>
|
||
for installations of Atomic Host. Example kickstart for such an installation
|
||
using Atomic installer iso with local repo included in the image can be found
|
||
in docs/rhel-atomic-pxe-live.ks.</p>
|
||
<p>The PXE images can also be created with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--no-virt</span></code> by using the example
|
||
kickstart in docs/rhel-atomic-pxe-live-novirt.ks. This also works inside the
|
||
mock environment.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="using-mock-and-no-virt-to-create-images">
|
||
<h2>Using Mock and –no-virt to Create Images<a class="headerlink" href="#using-mock-and-no-virt-to-create-images" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>As of lorax version 22.2 you can use livemedia-creator and anaconda version
|
||
22.15 inside of a mock chroot with –make-iso and –make-fsimage.</p>
|
||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||
<p class="last">As of mock 1.3.4 you need to use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--old-chroot</span></code> with mock. Mock now defaults to using systemd-nspawn
|
||
which cannot create the needed loop device nodes. Passing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--old-chroot</span></code> will use the old system
|
||
where <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/dev/loop*</span></code> is setup for you.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>On the host system:</p>
|
||
<ol class="arabic">
|
||
<li><p class="first">yum install -y mock</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Add a user to the mock group to use for running mock. eg. builder</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Create a new /etc/mock/ config file based on the rawhide one, or modify the
|
||
existing one so that the following options are setup:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">config_opts</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'chroot_setup_cmd'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'install @buildsys-build anaconda-tui lorax'</span>
|
||
|
||
<span class="c1"># build results go into /home/builder/results/</span>
|
||
<span class="n">config_opts</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'plugin_conf'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'bind_mount_opts'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'dirs'</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="s1">'/home/builder/results'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">'/results/'</span><span class="p">))</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>If you are creating images for a branched release of Fedora you should also enable
|
||
the updates-testing repository so that you get the latest builds in your mock chroot.</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
<p>The following steps are run as the builder user who is a member of the mock
|
||
group.</p>
|
||
<ol class="arabic" start="4">
|
||
<li><p class="first">Make a directory for results matching the bind mount above
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mkdir</span> <span class="pre">~/results/</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Copy the example kickstarts
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cp</span> <span class="pre">/usr/share/docs/lorax/*ks</span> <span class="pre">.</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Make sure tar and dracut-network are in the %packages section and that the
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">url</span> <span class="pre">points</span> <span class="pre">to</span> <span class="pre">the</span> <span class="pre">correct</span> <span class="pre">repo</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Init the mock
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mock</span> <span class="pre">-r</span> <span class="pre">rhel-8-x86_64</span> <span class="pre">--old-chroot</span> <span class="pre">--init</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Copy the kickstart inside the mock
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mock</span> <span class="pre">-r</span> <span class="pre">rhel-8-x86_64</span> <span class="pre">--old-chroot</span> <span class="pre">--copyin</span> <span class="pre">./rhel-minimal.ks</span> <span class="pre">/root/</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Make a minimal iso:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">mock</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">x86_64</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">old</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">chroot</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">chroot</span> <span class="o">--</span> <span class="n">livemedia</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">creator</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">no</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">virt</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">resultdir</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">results</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="k">try</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">logfile</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">results</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">logs</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="k">try</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="k">try</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">1.</span><span class="n">log</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">iso</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ks</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">root</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">minimal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ks</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
<p>Results will be in ./results/try-1 and logs under /results/logs/try-1/
|
||
including anaconda logs and livemedia-creator logs. The new iso will be
|
||
located at ~/results/try-1/images/boot.iso, and the ~/results/try-1/
|
||
directory tree will also contain the vmlinuz, initrd, etc.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="using-mock-and-qemu-to-create-images">
|
||
<h2>Using Mock and qemu to Create Images<a class="headerlink" href="#using-mock-and-qemu-to-create-images" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>Version 25.0 of livemedia-creator switches to using qemu for virtualization.
|
||
This allows creation of all image types, and use of the KVM on the host if
|
||
/dev/kvm is present in the mock environment.</p>
|
||
<p>On the host system:</p>
|
||
<ol class="arabic">
|
||
<li><p class="first">yum install -y mock</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Add a user to the mock group to use for running mock. eg. builder</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Create a new /etc/mock/ config file based on the rawhide one, or modify the
|
||
existing one so that the following options are setup:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">config_opts</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'chroot_setup_cmd'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'install @buildsys-build lorax qemu'</span>
|
||
|
||
<span class="c1"># build results go into /home/builder/results/</span>
|
||
<span class="n">config_opts</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'plugin_conf'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'bind_mount_opts'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'dirs'</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="s1">'/home/builder/results'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">'/results/'</span><span class="p">))</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>If you are creating images for a branched release of Fedora you should also enable
|
||
the updates-testing repository so that you get the latest builds in your mock chroot.</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
<p>The following steps are run as the builder user who is a member of the mock
|
||
group.</p>
|
||
<ol class="arabic" start="4">
|
||
<li><p class="first">Make a directory for results matching the bind mount above
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mkdir</span> <span class="pre">~/results/</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Copy the example kickstarts
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cp</span> <span class="pre">/usr/share/docs/lorax/*ks</span> <span class="pre">.</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Make sure tar and dracut-network are in the %packages section and that the
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">url</span> <span class="pre">points</span> <span class="pre">to</span> <span class="pre">the</span> <span class="pre">correct</span> <span class="pre">repo</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Init the mock
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mock</span> <span class="pre">-r</span> <span class="pre">rhel-8-x86_64</span> <span class="pre">--old-chroot</span> <span class="pre">--init</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Copy the kickstart inside the mock
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mock</span> <span class="pre">-r</span> <span class="pre">rhel-8-x86_64</span> <span class="pre">--old-chroot</span> <span class="pre">--copyin</span> <span class="pre">./rhel-minimal.ks</span> <span class="pre">/root/</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Copy the Anaconda boot.iso inside the mock
|
||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mock</span> <span class="pre">-r</span> <span class="pre">rhel-8-x86_64</span> <span class="pre">--old-chroot</span> <span class="pre">--copyin</span> <span class="pre">./boot.iso</span> <span class="pre">/root/</span></code></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li><p class="first">Make a minimal iso:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">mock</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">r</span> <span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">x86_64</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">old</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">chroot</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">chroot</span> <span class="o">--</span> <span class="n">livemedia</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">creator</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">resultdir</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">results</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="k">try</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">logfile</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">results</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">logs</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="k">try</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="k">try</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">1.</span><span class="n">log</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">iso</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ks</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">root</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">minimal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ks</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">iso</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">root</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">boot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">iso</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
<p>Results will be in ./results/try-1 and logs under /results/logs/try-1/
|
||
including anaconda logs and livemedia-creator logs. The new iso will be
|
||
located at ~/results/try-1/images/boot.iso, and the ~/results/try-1/
|
||
directory tree will also contain the vmlinuz, initrd, etc.</p>
|
||
<p>This will run qemu without kvm support, which is going to be very slow. You can
|
||
add <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mknod</span> <span class="pre">/dev/kvm</span> <span class="pre">c</span> <span class="pre">10</span> <span class="pre">232;</span></code> to create the device node before running lmc.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="openstack-image-creation">
|
||
<h2>OpenStack Image Creation<a class="headerlink" href="#openstack-image-creation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>OpenStack supports partitioned disk images so <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--make-disk</span></code> can be used to
|
||
create images for importing into glance, OpenStack’s image storage component.
|
||
You need to have access to an OpenStack provider that allows image uploads, or
|
||
setup your own using the instructions from the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.rdoproject.org/Quickstart">RDO Project</a>.</p>
|
||
<p>The example kickstart, rhel-openstack.ks, is only slightly different than the
|
||
rhel-minimal.ks one. It adds the cloud-init and cloud-utils-growpart
|
||
packages. OpenStack supports setting up the image using cloud-init, and
|
||
cloud-utils-growpart will grow the image to fit the instance’s disk size.</p>
|
||
<p>Create a qcow2 image using the kickstart like this:</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<div><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">livemedia-creator</span> <span class="pre">--make-disk</span> <span class="pre">--iso=/path/to/boot.iso</span> <span class="pre">--ks=/path/to/rhel-openstack.ks</span> <span class="pre">--image-type=qcow2</span></code></div></blockquote>
|
||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||
<p class="last">On the RHEL7 version of lmc <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--image-type</span></code> isn’t supported. You can only create a bare partitioned disk image.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>Import the resulting disk image into the OpenStack system, either via the web UI, or glance on the cmdline:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">glance</span> <span class="n">image</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">create</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">name</span> <span class="s2">"rhel-openstack"</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="ow">is</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">public</span> <span class="n">true</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">disk</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nb">format</span> <span class="n">qcow2</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">container</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nb">format</span> <span class="n">bare</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">file</span> <span class="o">./</span><span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">openstack</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">qcow2</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>If qcow2 wasn’t used then <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--disk-format</span></code> should be set to raw.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="container-image-creation">
|
||
<h2>Container Image Creation<a class="headerlink" href="#container-image-creation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>Use lmc to create a tarfile as described in the <a class="reference internal" href="#tar-file-creation">TAR File Creation</a> section, but substitute the
|
||
rhel-container.ks example kickstart which removes the requirement for core files and the kernel.</p>
|
||
<p>You can then import the tarfile into podman or docker like this:</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<div><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">podman</span> <span class="pre">import</span> <span class="pre">/var/tmp/root.tar.xz</span> <span class="pre">rhel-root</span></code></div></blockquote>
|
||
<p>And then run bash inside of it:</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<div><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">podman</span> <span class="pre">run</span> <span class="pre">-i</span> <span class="pre">-t</span> <span class="pre">rhel-root</span> <span class="pre">/bin/bash</span></code></div></blockquote>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="open-container-initiative-image-creation">
|
||
<h2>Open Container Initiative Image Creation<a class="headerlink" href="#open-container-initiative-image-creation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>The OCI is a new specification that is still being worked on. You can read more about it at
|
||
<a class="reference external" href="https://www.opencontainers.org/">the Open Container Initiative website</a>. You can create
|
||
OCI images using the following command:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">sudo</span> <span class="n">livemedia</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">creator</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">oci</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">oci</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">json</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">oci</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">runtime</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">runtime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">json</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">iso</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">boot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">iso</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ks</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">minimal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ks</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>You must provide the config.json and runtime.json files to be included in the bundle,
|
||
their specifications can be found <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/opencontainers/specs">on the OCI github project</a>
|
||
output will be in the results directory with a default name of bundle.tar.xz</p>
|
||
<p>This will work with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--no-virt</span></code> and inside a mock since it doesn’t use any
|
||
partitioned disk images.</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="vagrant-image-creation">
|
||
<h2>Vagrant Image Creation<a class="headerlink" href="#vagrant-image-creation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.vagrantup.com/">Vagrant</a> images can be created using the following command:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">sudo</span> <span class="n">livemedia</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">creator</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">vagrant</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">vagrant</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">metadata</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">metadata</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">json</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">iso</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">boot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">iso</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ks</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">vagrant</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ks</span>
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</pre></div>
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<p>The image created is a <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/pradels/vagrant-libvirt">vagrant-libvirt</a> provider image and needs to have
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vagrant setup with libvirt before you can use it.</p>
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<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--vagrant-metadata</span></code> file is optional, it will create a minimal one by
|
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default, and if one is passed it will make sure the disk size is setup
|
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correctly. If you pass a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--vagrant-vagrantfile</span></code> it will be included in the
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image verbatim. By default no vagrantfile is created.</p>
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<p>There is an example Vagrant kickstart file in the docs directory that sets up
|
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the vagrant user with the default insecure SSH pubkey and a few useful
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utilities.</p>
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<p>This also works with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--no-virt</span></code>, but will not work inside a mock due to its
|
||
use of partitioned disk images and qcow2.</p>
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<div class="section" id="creating-uefi-disk-images-with-virt">
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<h2>Creating UEFI disk images with virt<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-uefi-disk-images-with-virt" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
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<p>Partitioned disk images can only be created for the same platform as the host system (BIOS or
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UEFI). You can use virt to create BIOS images on UEFI systems, and it is also possible
|
||
to create UEFI images on BIOS systems using OVMF firmware and qemu.</p>
|
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<p>Install the lorax-lmc-virt package, this will install qemu and the OVMF
|
||
firmware files.</p>
|
||
<p>Now you can run livemedia-creator with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--virt-uefi</span></code> to boot and install using UEFI:</p>
|
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<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">sudo</span> <span class="n">livemedia</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">creator</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">make</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">disk</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">virt</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">uefi</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">iso</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">boot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">iso</span> \
|
||
<span class="o">--</span><span class="n">ks</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">rhel</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">minimal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ks</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>Make sure that the kickstart you are using creates a /boot/efi partition by including this:</p>
|
||
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">part</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">boot</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">efi</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">fstype</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"efi"</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">size</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">500</span>
|
||
</pre></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>Or use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">reqpart</span></code> in the kickstart and Anaconda will create the required partitions.</p>
|
||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||
<p class="last">The –virt-uefi method is currently only supported on the x86_64 architecture.</p>
|
||
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|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="section" id="debugging-problems">
|
||
<h2>Debugging problems<a class="headerlink" href="#debugging-problems" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>Sometimes an installation will get stuck. When using qemu the logs will
|
||
be written to ./virt-install.log and most of the time any problems that happen
|
||
will be near the end of the file. lmc tries to detect common errors and will
|
||
cancel the installation when they happen. But not everything can be caught.
|
||
When creating a new kickstart it is helpful to use vnc so that you can monitor
|
||
the installation as it happens, and if it gets stuck without lmc detecting the
|
||
problem you can switch to tty1 and examine the system directly.</p>
|
||
<p>If it does get stuck the best way to cancel is to use kill -9 on the qemu pid,
|
||
lmc will detect that the process died and cleanup.</p>
|
||
<p>If lmc didn’t handle the cleanup for some reason you can do this:
|
||
1. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">umount</span> <span class="pre">/tmp/lmc-XXXX</span></code> to unmount the iso from its mountpoint.
|
||
2. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">rm</span> <span class="pre">-rf</span> <span class="pre">/tmp/lmc-XXXX</span></code>
|
||
3. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">rm</span> <span class="pre">/var/tmp/lmc-disk-XXXXX</span></code> to remove the disk image.</p>
|
||
<p>Note that lmc uses the lmc- prefix for all of its temporary files and
|
||
directories to make it easier to find and clean up leftovers.</p>
|
||
<p>The logs from the qemu run are stored in virt-install.log, logs from
|
||
livemedia-creator are in livemedia.log and program.log</p>
|
||
<p>You can add <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--image-only</span></code> to skip the .iso creation and examine the resulting
|
||
disk image. Or you can pass <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--keep-image</span></code> to keep it around after the iso has
|
||
been created.</p>
|
||
<p>Cleaning up aborted <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--no-virt</span></code> installs can sometimes be accomplished by
|
||
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|
||
multi-threaded and it can sometimes become stuck and refuse to exit. When this
|
||
happens you can usually clean up by first killing the anaconda process then
|
||
running <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">anaconda-cleanup</span></code>.</p>
|
||
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<div class="section" id="hacking">
|
||
<h2>Hacking<a class="headerlink" href="#hacking" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||
<p>Development on this will take place as part of the lorax project, and on the
|
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anaconda-devel-list mailing list, and <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/rhinstaller/lorax">on github</a></p>
|
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|
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