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| .TH convertz 8 "December 2011" convertz "convertz admin manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| convertz \- A Simple Tool for Converting VM image to Live Image for Zoni |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B zoni [-i |
| .I input VM image |
| .B ] [-n |
| .I live image name |
| .B ] [-u |
| .I update image |
| .B ] [-p |
| .I partition number (optional) |
| .B ] [-h] [-v] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .BI convertz |
| is a simple tool that will convert your VM image to a Live Image for Zoni. |
| It accepts any VM image formats such as raw, vdi, qcow, etc. |
| (generally formats supported by qemu-img), converts it to raw format and |
| make all necessary adjustments before converting it a squashfs image. It |
| also obtains other information of the image such as the Linux Kernel |
| (vmlinuz) and initial ramdisk (initrd.img) before making necessary steps |
| to register the information into Zoni and move the necessary files to their |
| respective folders. |
| .PP |
| Currently |
| .BI convertz |
| only supports full Ubuntu or Debian based VM images (with vmlinuz and initrd.img in |
| /boot folder) and it assumes that the VM images file system in Non LVM |
| based and only contains a / or root partition and a swap partition. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .IP "-i input VM image" |
| The input is the actual VM image that a user wants to convert to live image. |
| .IP "-n live image name" |
| This is the live image name that will be register into Zoni as well as the |
| name that the converted live image be named (with a .squashfs extension). |
| .IP "-u" |
| Use this option to update existing Image. |
| .IP "-p partition number" |
| This is the partition number of the / or root of the VM image. This parameter |
| is optional as |
| .BI convertz |
| will try to detect the partition itself. It is usefull only if the VM image |
| has more than 2 partitions during creation of the VM image. |
| .IP -h |
| Print usage/help information and exit. |
| .IP -v |
| Print version and exit. |
| .SH FILES |
| .I convertz |
| depends on several other tools in order to perform its task. They are: |
| .RS |
| zoni, qemu-img, parted, mksquashfs and uuidgen. |
| .RE |
| .PP |
| In addition, it expects the Debian Live Project deb files are compiled |
| and prepared. They are: |
| .RS |
| live-boot, live-config and live-tools |
| .RE |
| Information on preparing these files are available at http://live.debian.net |
| .SH BUGS |
| This is still a work in progress. As mentioned earlier, |
| .BI convertz |
| only supports Ubuntu or Debian based VM images only. A fair amount of steps had been |
| added to try to capture any errors as early as possible, any bugs please |
| contact the author. Thanks. |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| Jing-Yuan Luke (jyluke(alias)gmail.com) |
