The Fedora Appliance tools Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> Last updated: February 04 2017 (v008.0) Tools for generating appliance images on Fedora based systems including derived distributions such as RHEL, CentOS and others. This project and it's source files is licensed under the GPLv2 license. See the file COPYING for details. 1. APPLIANCE CREATOR DESIGN GOALS This is a first cut the Appliance Creation Tool (ACT) a tool to create Appliance Images from a kickstart file. This tool uses the liveCD creator API as well as patches to the LIVECD API originally written by Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> to create a multi partitioned disk image. This Disk image can then be booted in a virtual container such as XEN, KVM, and VMWARE or installed into sdcards or usb sticks for use on arm systems such as the panda board, beagleboard, trimslice, etc. 2. CREATING AN APPLIANCE IMAGE To create an appliance image, the appliance-creator tool is used. Super user privileges are needed. The tool is more or less self-documenting, use the --help option to see options. Build the appliance, this used the example kickstart file included in the rpm others are available in the spin KickstartPool # appliance-creator -n ThinCrust --config /usr/share/doc/appliance-tools-%{version}/aos-rawhide.ks Run using libvirt (requires libvirt virt-manager libvirt-python python-virtinst) # virt-image ThinCrust.xml Installing an arm image requires installing via xzcat # xzcat <arm disk image> >/dev/sdcard