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author | Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> | 2015-05-02 18:57:16 +0100 |
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committer | Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> | 2015-05-02 18:57:16 +0100 |
commit | db25f4d3190d62798884ad80012a7b3d88fbd504 (patch) | |
tree | 6e10a691288d9600dd93aead4467f3816da1c9bc /README | |
parent | 81bbe4c44f41e31fd4a8101bc1efb3a825f374b0 (diff) | |
download | vmdebootstrap-db25f4d3190d62798884ad80012a7b3d88fbd504.tar.gz |
Add an image extraction helper
vmextract can use python-guestfs to extract files and
directories from an image without needing root privileges.
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@@ -59,6 +59,25 @@ In order to use vmdebootstrap, you'll need a few things: * kpartx * python-cliapp (see http://liw.fi/cliapp/) +The vmextract helper +-------------------- + +Once the image is built, various files can be generated or modified +during the install operations and some of these files can be useful +when testing the image. One example is the initrd built by the process +of installing a Debian kernel. Rather than having to mount the image +and copy the files manually, the vmextract helper can do it for you, +without needing root privileges. + +$ /usr/share/vmdebootstrap/vmextract.py --verbose \ + --image bbb/bbb-debian-armmp.img --boot \ + --path /boot/initrd.img-3.14-2-armmp \ + --path /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libresolv.so.2 + +This uses python-guestfs (a Recommended package for vmdebootstrap) to +prepare a read-only version of the image - in this case with the /boot +partition also mounted - and copies files out into the current working +directory. Legalese -------- |