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---
title: Building system images with vmdb2
author: Lars Wirzenius
date: work-in-progress
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# Introduction
- what is vmdb2 for?
- how does it differ from other image building tools?
- especially vmdebootstrap
# Installation
- .deb
- git clone and run from source tree
# Quick start
- sample .vmdb2
- command to run vmdb2 and produce an image
- command to run vm using image
# Configuration
- command line options, list them and give summary of use
- cliapp config files, ini and yaml, and the fact that a long
option is always an acceptable variable in a config file
# A .vmdb2 image specification file
- yaml, jinja2 syntax
- steps to list what needs to be done to build an image
- setting jinja2 variables from the command line
# List of available steps and their configuration
- list each step
- what is the step for? examples of how it could be used
- what mandatory and optional key/value pairs does it
understand? examples of their use
- the tag concept
# Examples
- various spec files, explained in detail
- simple image to run under kvm, qemu, or similar, boots with
normal grub (bios)
- same but with uefi boot
- same but software installed with ansible
- an LVM enabled image with encrypted / but cleartext /boot
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