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NAME

       qemubuilder - a pbuilder wrapper for qemu.

SYNOPSIS

       qemubuilder [commands] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       qemubuilder Executes the specified pbuilder operation with qemu

COMMANDS

       Most commands imitate pbuilder, see pbuilder manual for details.

       --create

              Create the base.qemu image.

       --update

              Update the base.qemu image.

       --build .dsc-file

              Build a package given a .dsc file

       --login

              Start a session within the base.qemu.

       --execute

              Execute a command within the base.qemu.

       --dumpconfig

              dump configuration information.

       --arch-diskdevice sd/hd

              specify whether disk device inside the virtual machine is called
              /dev/sda or /dev/hda. The possible value is ’sd’ or ’hd’.

OPTIONS

       Most options are the same as pbuilder, except for the  following  which
       are handled specially.

       I don’t think I can support bind-mounts in qemu.

       Documentation  here  should  be  updated according to what’s defined in
       parameter.c, but it isn’t.

CONFIGURATION FILES

       qemubuilder reads the following configuration files per default.

       /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
              Application default, not to be changed.

       /etc/pbuilderrc
              System-wide default.

       ~/.pbuilderrc
              User default

       anything specified with --configfile option
              Additional configuration at runtime.

CONFIGURATION FILE OPTIONS

       The possible configuration options are as follows.  Others are ignored.

       DISTRIBUTION=distribution

       BUILDRESULT=directory

       BUILDPLACE=directory

       BASEPATH=path

       MIRRORSITE=http://mirror

       KERNEL_IMAGE=vmlinuz
              Linux kernel to use.

       INITRD=initrd
              initrd to use.

       ARCHITECTURE=arch

              The target architecture.

              You can also use ARCH=arch for compatibility with 0.60 or older.

       MEMORY_MEGS=64
              memory size to use in qemu session, in MB.

       ARCH_DISKDEVICE=hd

              The architecture-specific disk device specifier. Most arches use
              sd, except for i386 and amd64, which use hd.

EXAMPLES

       qemubuilder --create
              Create a base.qemu image.

       qemubuilder --update
              Update the base.qemu image.

       qemubuilder --build test_0.1.dsc
              Build  the  package  specified  in  dsc file, with the base.qemu
              image.

       pdebuild --pbuilder qemubuilder
              Run qemubuilder --build  against  the  current  directory.   The
              current  directory  should be an extracted Debian source package
              directory.

              Edit /etc/pbuilderrc to  have  PDEBUILD_PBUILDER=qemubuilder  to
              make this the default behavior for pdebuild.

       qemubuilder       --create      --distribution      sid      --basepath
       /var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.qemu
              Create a base.qemu image with the path /var/cache/pbuilder/base-
              test.qemu and distribution sid.

       Example pbuilderrc for i386

              KERNEL_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-k7
              INITRD=initrd.img-2.6.18-4-k7
              ARCHITECTURE=i386
              BASEPATH=/home/dancer/tmp/base-i386.qemu
              MEMORY_MEGS=64

              Note. INITRD may or may not be required for your system.  Debian Installer
              initrd may or may not work depending on which one you choose, use the
              one from an installed system.

       CAVEATS

              Note that for mirror specification, http://localhost/debian/ usually
              doesn’t work, it will be searching for files on the virtual machine
              itself, not the host OS.

AUTHOR

       Junichi Uekawa (dancer@debian.org)

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.html, pbuilder (8), pdebuild (1)