Supermin question

[Thomas S Hatch]

I imagine I am missing something obvious, but I can't figure out how to
start a supermin appliance.  I ran the helper script and generated my initrd
and symbolic link to my kernel, but I can't figure out how to use it beyond
that, how to actually boot it.
Thanks!
-Tom Hatch

[Matthew Booth]

On 31/07/09 16:23, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> I imagine I am missing something obvious, but I can't figure out how to
> start a supermin appliance.  I ran the helper script and generated my
> initrd and symbolic link to my kernel, but I can't figure out how to use
> it beyond that, how to actually boot it.
> Thanks!

If you configured libguestfs with supermin (./configure 
--enable-supermin), it will automatically create the supermin appliance 
every time you invoke libguestfs. You don't ever have to create the 
appliance manually.

Matt

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:23:02AM -0600, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> I imagine I am missing something obvious, but I can't figure out how to
> start a supermin appliance.  I ran the helper script and generated my initrd
> and symbolic link to my kernel, but I can't figure out how to use it beyond
> that, how to actually boot it.

Not quite sure what you're wanting to do with it, but you can create &
boot the supermin appliance just by running any libguestfs-using
program, eg.

$ ./fish/guestfish -v alloc /tmp/test.img 10M : time run

Rich.