README

   1 README for vmdebootstrap
   2 ========================
   3
   4 `debootstrap` installs a basic Debian system into a directory, for use with
   5 `chroot`(8). `vmdebootstrap` is a wrapper around it to install Debian into
   6 a disk image, which can be used with a virtual machine (such as KVM).
   7
   8 See the manual page and `vmdebootstrap --help` for details on how to
   9 use the program. The manual page has an example.
  10
  11
  12 What you need
  13 -------------
  14
  15 In order to use vmdebootstrap, you'll need a few things:
  16
  17 * debootstrap
  18 * extlinux
  19 * qemu-img (in the qemu-utils package in Debian)
  20 * parted
  21 * mbr
  22 * kpartx
  23 * python-cliapp (see http://liw.fi/cliapp/)
  24
  25
  26 Legalese
  27 --------
  28
  29 Copyright 2011-2013  Lars Wirzenius
  30 Copyright 2012  Codethink Limited
  31
  32 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  33 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  34 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  35 at your option) any later version.
  36
  37 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  38 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  39 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  40 GNU General Public License for more details.
  41
  42 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  43 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  44