[\-\-bootsize=BOOTSIZE] [\-\-boottype=FSTYPE] [\-\-roottype=FSTYPE] [\-\-foreign=PATH]
[\-\-variant=VARIANT] [\-\-no-extlinux] [\-\-squash] [\-\-configure-apt]
[\-\-grub] [\-\-apt-mirror] [\-\-pkglist] [\-\-use\-efi] [\-\-efi\-size]
+[\-\-debootstrapopts]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B vmdebootstrap
installs a basic Debian system into a virtual disk image,
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
+For systems running newer versions of systemd, the interface name needs
+to be set in advance of the first boot instead of being dependent on the
+boot itself. See the http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
+.b vmdebootstrap
+disables this behaviour by symlinking /dev/null to /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
+
.SH BOOTLOADERS
Unless the \-\-no\-extlinux or \-\-grub options are specified, the
image will use
Disable extlinux installation and configure grub2 instead. grub2 will be added to
the list of packages to install. update-grub will be called once the debootstrap is
complete and grub-install will be called in the image.
+.IP \-\-debootstrapopts
+Pass additional options to debootstrap as a quoted list of options
+and values, separated by spaces.
+e.g. --debootstrapopts="variant=buildd no-check-gpg components=main,contrib".
+See debootstrap \-\-help and debootstrap (1) for valid options.
.IP \-\-no\-acpid
Disable installation of acpid if not required, otherwise acpid will be
installed if \-\-foreign is not used.
make memory profiling dumps at least SECONDS apart
.SH EXAMPLE
To create an image for the stable release of Debian:
-.nf
.IP
sudo vmdebootstrap \-\-image test.img \-\-size 1g \\
\-\-log test.log \-\-log-level debug \-\-verbose \\
\-\-mirror http://mirror.lan/debian/
.PP
-To run the test image, make sure it is writeable. Use the \-\-owner
-option to set mode 0644 for the specified user or use chmod manually:
+To run the test image, make sure it is writeable. Use the \-\-owner option to set
+mode 0644 for the specified user or use chmod manually:
.IP
sudo chmod a+w ./test.img
.PP
.IP
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive format=raw,file=./test.img
.PP
-(This loads the image in a new window.)
+(This loads the image in a new window.) Note the use of -drive
+file=<img>,format=raw which is needed for newer versions of QEMU.
+.PP
+There is EFI firmware available to use with QEMU when testing images built
+using the UEFI support, but this software is in Debian non-free due to patent
+concerns. If you choose to install
+.B
+ovmf
+to test UEFI builds, a secondary change is also needed to symlink the provided
+OVMF.fd to the file required by QEMU: bios-256k.bin and then tell QEMU about
+the location of this file with the -L option:
+.IP
+$ qemu-system-x86_64 \-L /usr/share/ovmf/ -machine accel=kvm \\
+ \-m 4096 \-smp 2 \-drive format=raw,file=test.img
.PP
For further examples, including u-boot support for beaglebone-black,
see /usr/share/vmdebootstrap/examples