elbe-initvm

NAME

elbe-initvm - High Level Interface to the ELBE System. Allows one to create an initvm and directly build Rootfilesystems using ELBE.

SYNOPSIS

elbe initvm [options] attach
elbe initvm [options] create [<xmlfile> | <isoimage>]
elbe initvm [options] submit [<xmlfile> | <isoimage>]
elbe initvm [options] start
elbe initvm [options] stop
elbe initvm [options] ensure
elbe initvm [options] destroy

DESCRIPTION

This command allows one to build and manage an initvm.

Initvms are managed via libvirt, and it’s necessary that a user is a member of the libvirt group.

OPTIONS

--directory <dir>: Directory where the initvm resides, or is supposed to reside. (Defaults to ./initvm)
--cdrom <CDROM>: ISO image of Binary cdrom.
--skip-download: After the build has finished, the generated Files are downloaded from the initvm to the host. This step is skipped, when this option is specified.
--output <dir>: Directoryname where the generated and downloaded Files should be saved. The default is to generate a directory with a timestamp in the current working directory.
--skip-build-bin: Skip building binary repository CDROM, for exact reproduction.
--skip-build-sources: Skip building source CDROM.
--output <directory>: Output downloaded files to <directory>.
--keep-files: Don’t delete elbe project files after a build in the initvm use elbe control list_projects to get a list of available projects
--writeproject <file>: Write project name to <file>.
--nesting: Allow initvm to support nested kvm. This makes /proc/cpuinfo inside initvm differ per host.
--build-sdk: Also make initvm submit build an SDK.
--qemu: Use QEMU directly instead of libvirt.

XML OPTIONS

--variant <variant>: comma separated list of variants
--proxy <proxy>: add proxy to mirrors

COMMANDS

attach

Attach to the initvm console, which is accessed via virsh.

User root, password root.

create [ <xmlfile> | <isoimage> ]

This command triggers a complete rebuild of the Elbe XML File. It also includes rebuilding the initvm.

If an initvm is already available, you should use the submit command, to build a project in an existing initvm.

Note that only a single initvm can be running on your host.

When an iso Image with the binaries has been built earlier, it can also be used to recreate the original image. The source.xml from the iso will be used, and all the binary packages available also.

submit [ <xmlfile> | <isoimage> ]

This command triggers a complete rebuild of the Elbe XML File. It will however use an existing initvm.

When an iso Image with the binaries has been built earlier, it can also be used to recreate the original image. The source.xml from the iso will be used, and all the binary packages available also.

start

Start initvm in the Background.

stop

Shutdown running initvm.

sync

Upload elbe Version from the current working into initvm using rsync. Before using this command, you’ll have to add your client SSH key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys in initvm manually.

ensure

Make sure an initvm is running in the Background.

destroy

Clean up resources used by the initvm. initvm should be stopped before.

Examples

Build an initvm and on that build an elbe example:

$ elbe initvm create /usr/share/doc/elbe-doc/examples/rescue.xml

Reuse the initvm built in the previous Step to build another example xml

$ elbe initvm submit /usr/share/doc/elbe-doc/examples/elbe-desktop.xml

ELBE

Part of the elbe(1) suite