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Setting up Tools and Environment

- Install VirtualBox 4.2 or latest
- Tool for exporting appliances: qemu-img, vboxmanage, vhd-util
- Install [RVM](https://rvm.io/rvm/install)
- Setup paths:
      export PATH=~/.rvm/bin:$PATH
- Install Ruby 1.9.3, if it installed some other version:
      rvm install 1.9.3
- Set rvm to use that 1.9.3
      rvm use ruby-1.9.3
- Install bundler: (if you get any openssl issue see https://rvm.io/packages/openssl)
      gem install bundler

All the dependencies will be fetched automatically.

To save some time if you've downloaded iso of your distro, put the isos in: tools/appliance/iso/

Note, gem may require gcc-4.2, make sure link exists:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.2

How to build SystemVMs automatically

Just run build.sh, it will export archived appliances for KVM, Xen, VMWare and HyperV in dist:

sh build.sh [systemvmtemplate|systemvmtemplate64]

Building SystemVM template appliance manually

List available appliances one can build:

veewee vbox list

Modify scripts in definitions/appliance/ as per needs. Build systemvm template appliance:

veewee vbox build 'systemvmtemplate'

Start the box:

veewee vbox up 'systemvmtemplate'

Halt the box:

veewee vbox halt 'systemvmtemplate'

Now VirtualBox can be used to export appliance.

Trobuleshooting

If you see following line in the screen, then veewee is failing extracting vboxmanage version.

Downloading vbox guest additions iso v  - http://download.virtualbox.org/vi

You would be able to check it manually by typing:

vboxmanage --version

If you're using Fedora for example, you'll need to install kernel-devel package and run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup to get veewee working.