README for vmdebootstrap
========================

`debootstrap` installs a basic Debian system into a directory, for use with
`chroot`(8). `vmdeboostrap` is a wrapper around it to install Debian into 
a disk image, which can be used with a virtual machine (such as KVM).

See the manual page and `vmdebootstrap --help` for details on how to
use the program. The manual page has an example.


What you need
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In order to use vmdebootstrap, you'll need a few things:

* debootstrap
* extlinux
* qemu-img (in the qemu-utils package in Debian)
* parted
* mbr
* kpartx
* python-cliapp (see http://liw.fi/cliapp/)


Legalese
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Copyright 2011-2013  Lars Wirzenius
Copyright 2012  Codethink Limited
 
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
at your option) any later version.
 
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
 
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

