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    initial build-vm feature · 75f7c62b
    Michael Shigorin authored
    Yes, mkimage-profiles is now able to build VM disk images.
    So far the support is pretty basic:
    
    - a single hard drive image with a single partition/FS
    - only stock root password is configurable
    - LILO is hardwired as a bootloader
    
    The resulting images tend to boot under qemu/kvm though.
    
    Please see doc/vm.txt for the warning regarding additional
    privileges and setup required.  This was started back in
    February but I still hoped to avoid sudo/privileged helper
    (and libguestfs is almost as undistributable as can be)...
    
    Thanks:
    
    - http://blog.quinthar.com/2008/07/building-1gb-bootable-qemu-image-using.html
    - Alexey Morarash who reworked that as https://github.com/tuxofil/linsygen
    - led@, legion@, vitty@, aen@ for providing advice and inspiration
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