Re: [Libguestfs] Convert bootable raw hdd image to bootable iso?

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:57:16PM +0000, adrelanos wrote: Creating a bootable ISO is tricky. You'll probably want to use 'genisoimage'. That's outside the scope of libguestfs, but there are lots of documents online about using mkisofs/genisoimage to create bootable ISOs. Note that AFAIK grub is not involved with bootable ISOs. They usually use ISOLINUX. Libguestfs may help to extract the files from the HDD image however: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-recipes.1.html#export-any-directory-from-a-vm eg: mkdir /tmp/files cd /tmp/files virt-copy-out -a /tmp/disk.img / . (Note the final '.') Then you could use genisoimage on this directory. You might be better off seeing if there's a direct way to use debootstrap to create bootable ISOs. Whatever Debian uses to create installer CDs would be a good starting point. Rich. -- 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://libguestfs.org