febootstrap - Bootstrapping tool for creating supermin appliances by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com) http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- febootstrap is a tool for building supermin appliances. These are tiny appliances [similar to virtual machines], usually around 100KB in size, which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a second when you need to boot one of them. A complete description is in the febootstrap(8) man page. IMPORTANT NOTE FOR USERS OF FEBOOTSTRAP 2.x: febootstrap 3.x is a complete rewrite. febootstrap 2.x could only build Fedora distributions. This version can build many varieties of Linux distros. 3.x only builds supermin appliances, it does not build chroots. 3.x does not build cross-distro, cross-release or cross-architecture systems. If you want febootstrap 2.x, please use the 'febootstrap-2.x' branch from the git repository. Requirements ------------ ocaml ocaml findlib ("ocamlfind" program) perldoc - This is just used to generate the manpage. bash gcc gawk libcom_err libext2fs /sbin/mke2fs - These are part of e2fsprogs. For Fedora/RHEL: rpm yum yumdownloader For Debian/Ubuntu: dpkg aptitude Optional -------- These are only needed if you plan to boot the supermin appliances you are building: qemu >= 0.13 kernel >= 2.6.36 zlib - if your kernel uses gzipped modules Building and installing ----------------------- ./configure make sudo make install Feedback and bugs ----------------- Send feedback to libguestfs@redhat.com. You can file bugs in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ (under "Fedora", "febootstrap")