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README.md

Introduction

This is used to build appliances for use with CloudStack. Currently two build profiles are available for building systemvmtemplate (Debian based) and CentOS based built-in user VM template.

Setting up Tools and Environment

Install packer (v1.8.x, v1.9.x tested) and latest KVM, qemu on a Linux x86 machine (Ubuntu 20.04 tested)
Install tools for exporting appliances: qemu-img, ovftool, faketime, sharutils

Build and install vhd-util as described in build.sh or use pre-built binaries at:

http://packages.shapeblue.com/systemvmtemplate/vhd-util
http://packages.shapeblue.com/systemvmtemplate/libvhd.so.1.0

For building ARM64 systemvm template on amd64 systems, please also install: qemu-utils qemu-system-arm qemu-efi-aarch64

How to build appliances

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

bash build.sh <name> <version> <arch>
bash build.sh systemvmtemplate 4.19.1.0 x86_64
bash build.sh systemvmtemplate 4.19.1.0 aarch64

For building builtin x86_64 template run:

bash build.sh builtin