autopkgtest-build-qemu(1)

NAME
autopkgtest-build-qemu - Create autopkgtest virtual machine images for autopkgtest-virt-qemu

SYNOPSIS
autopkgtest-build-qemu RELEASE IMAGE [MIRROR] [ARCHITECTURE] [SCRIPT]

DESCRIPTION
autopkgtest-build-qemu creates virtual machine images suitable for use with autopkgtest's QEMU runner autopkgtest-virt-qemu(1). Under the hood, it uses vmdb2(1) to create the images. The MIRROR parameter can be used to control which distrition to install. It defaults to http://deb.debian.org/debian (i.e. Debian), but you can pass a mirror of any Debian derivative. It defaults to the native architecture, but you can specify a different one as fourth parameter. The path to a script to be executed inside the virtual machine root filesystem can be passed as the fifth parameter. The script must be a POSIX shell script, and should not depend on bash-specific features. This script will be executed inside a chroot(1) call in the virtual machine root filesystem. Note that you need to call this as root. You can specify an apt proxy to use in the virtual machine in the $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_PROXY environment variable. If you have an apt proxy configured on the host, the virtual machine will automatically use this, otherwise there is no default.

EXAMPLES
# autopkgtest-build-qemu unstable /path/to/debian-unstable.img

$ sudo autopkgtest-build-qemu stable /path/to/debian-stable-i386.img i386

$ sudo autopkgtest-build-qemu bionic /path/to/ubuntu-bionic.img http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

SEE ALSO
autopkgtest-virt-qemu(1), vmdb2(1), autopkgtest(1), /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/.

AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT
autopkgtest-build-qemu was written by Antonio Terceiro <terceirio@debian.org> This manpage is part of autopkgtest, a tool for testing Debian binary packages. autopkgtest is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Canonical Ltd and others. See /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/CREDITS for the list of contributors and full copying conditions.