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This is used to build appliances for use with CloudStack. Currently two build profiles are available for building systemvmtemplate (Debian based) and CentOS based built-in user VM template.
Install packer and latest KVM, qemu on a Linux machine
Install tools for exporting appliances: qemu-img, ovftool, faketime
Build and install vhd-util as described in build.sh or use pre-built binaries at:
http://packages.shapeblue.com/systemvmtemplate/vhd-util http://packages.shapeblue.com/systemvmtemplate/libvhd.so.1.0
Just run build.sh, it will export archived appliances for KVM, XenServer, VMWare and HyperV in dist directory:
bash build.sh systemvmtemplate bash build.sh builtin