qemubuilder - a pbuilder wrapper for qemu.

       Junichi Uekawa (dancer@debian.org)

       Note  that  for mirror specification, http://localhost/debian/ usually doesn't work, it will be searching
       for files on the virtual machine itself, not the host OS.

       Most commands imitate pbuilder, see pbuilder manual for details.

       --create, create
              Create the base.qemu image.

       --update, update, up, u
              Update the base.qemu image.

       --build, build, b
              Build a package given a .dsc file

       --login, login, l
              Start a session within the base.qemu.

       --execute, execute, e
              Execute a command within the base.qemu.

       --dumpconfig, dumpconfig
              Dump configuration information, used for debugging.

       The possible configuration options are as follows.  Others are ignored.

       DISTRIBUTION=distributionBUILDRESULT=directoryBUILDPLACE=directoryBASEPATH=pathMIRRORSITE=http://mirrorKERNEL_IMAGE=vmlinuz
              Linux kernel to use.

       INITRD=initrd
              Initrd to use.

       ARCHITECTURE=arch
              The target architecture.

              You can also use ARCH=arch for compatibility with 0.60 or older.

       MEMORY_MEGS=256
              Memory size to use in qemu session, in MB.

       ARCH_DISKDEVICE=hd
              The architecture-specific disk device  specifier.  Most  arches  use  sd  these  days.   The  only
              exceptions were i386 and amd64, which used to use hd.

       SMP=2  The SMP option for qemu.

       qemubuilder reads the following configuration files per default.

       /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
              Application default, not to be changed.

       /etc/pbuilderrc
              System-wide default.

       ~/.pbuilderrc
              User default

       anythingspecifiedwith--configfileoption
              Additional configuration at runtime.

qemubuilder Executes the specified pbuilder operation with qemu

qemubuildercreate
              Create a base.qemu image.

       qemubuilderupdate
              Update the base.qemu image.

       qemubuilderbuildtest_0.1.dsc
              Build the package specified in dsc file, with the base.qemu image.

       pdebuild--pbuilderqemubuilder
              Run qemubuilderbuild against the current directory.  The current directory should be an extracted
              Debian source package directory.

              Edit  /etc/pbuilderrc  to have PDEBUILD_PBUILDER=qemubuilder to make this the default behavior for
              pdebuild.qemubuildercreate--distributionsid--basepath/var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.qemu
              Create a base.qemu image with the path /var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.qemu and distribution sid.

       Examplepbuilderrcfori386
              KERNEL_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-k7
              INITRD=initrd.img-2.6.18-4-k7
              ARCHITECTURE=i386
              BASEPATH=/home/dancer/tmp/base-i386.qemu
              MEMORY_MEGS=256

       Note: INITRD may or may not be required for your system.  Debian Installer initrd may  or  may  not  work
       depending on which one you choose, use the one from an installed system.

       qemubuilder - a pbuilder wrapper for qemu.

       Most options are the same as pbuilder, except for the following which are handled specially.

       --arch-diskdevicesd/hd
              Specify  whether  the  disk  device inside the virtual machine is called /dev/sda or /dev/hda. The
              possible values are 'sd' and 'hd'.

       --smp2
              The option passed to SMP.

       I don't think I can support bind-mounts in qemu.

       Documentation here should be updated according to what's defined in parameter.c, but it isn't.

/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.html,pbuilder(8), pdebuild(1)

pbuilder                                           2008 Aug 10                                    qemubuilder(8)

qemubuildercreate[options]qemubuilderupdate[options]qemubuilderbuild[options].dsc-fileqemubuilderlogin[options]qemubuilderexecute[options]--script[scriptoptions]qemubuilderdumpconfig