On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:59:34PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
/tmp/initrd will be the appliance (quite a large file: usually around 100 MB).
I should add that because of the way we do supermin appliances [Note 1] this initrd file is quite large. You can actually compress this file with gzip (or even bzip2??), but when you copy it into the build it must always be called: 'appliance/initramfs.fedora-12.x86_64.img' (no .gz extension). Rich. [1] http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/supermin-appliance-now-in-febootstrap/ We don't compress the initrd because it's an intermediate file that normally just gets passed straight to qemu. It's too slow to compress it temporarily and decompress it during the boot. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html