[Arm-dev] Small announcement: virt-builder CentOS 7.2 aarch64 image

Jim Perrin jperrin at centos.org
Thu Jul 14 13:50:55 UTC 2016


Oh that's pretty slick. Nice work!

On 07/13/2016 05:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> You can now do:
> 
>   virt-builder centos-7.2 --arch aarch64
> 
> to get a CentOS 7.2 aarch64 image.  The --arch parameter is not
> required if your host is aarch64, since it defaults to finding the
> same guest arch as host arch.
> 
> Some other things you might try (these work as non-root too):
> 
>   virt-builder centos-7.2 \
>       --arch aarch64 \
>       --size 20G \
>       --hostname myguest --timezone Europe/London \
>       --root-password password:123456 \
>       --update --selinux-relabel
>   virt-install --import --name myguest --ram 2048 \
>       --disk path=centos-7.2.img,format=raw --os-variant centos7.0
> 
> Note there is an updated virt-builder package available which is
> similar to what RHEL and CentOS will have in 7.3:
> 
>   https://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-7.3-preview/
> 
> Rich.
> 

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