rBuilder Online:Raw Hard Disk Image
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The Raw Hard Disk Image creates an image consisting of a file that represents a hard disk installed with the appliance. These images include a boot sector.
Use this image type to create a consistent image that can be used in most virtualized computing environments (such as QEMU, Parallels, and Xen).
When building the appliance group to use this image type, the specifications required are those specific to deploying as a Xen DomU (when applicable) and for different architectures (32-bit and 64-bit). The following rMake command is used to build group-example as a Xen DomU and as an installable ISO, each for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures:
$> rmake build 'group-example[is: x86]' 'group-example[xen, domU is: x86]' 'group-example[is: x86_64]' 'group-example[xen, domU is: x86_64]'
The following options can be customized in the Advanced Options section when creating a build of this build type.
- Custom output filename prefix
- Use this to specify a custom prefix for filenames output from the build, overriding the default name-version-architecture prefix.
- Custom Conary installLabelPath setting
- Use this to specify the locations where your software appliance will retrieve software updates, such as a local Conary repository dedicated to the development of your software appliance. (If you do not choose this option, the install label paths are set to locations at rpath.org.)
- Automatically install required dependencies during updates
- Use this if you want the appliance to automatically install additional software on which updates may depend.
- How many MB of free space should be allocated in the image?
- Use this to designate an amount of free space that your software appliance may need in addition to that reserved for the operating system, such as allowance for a growing database. The default value for this is 250 MB.
- How many MB swap space should be reserved in this image?
- Use this to designate a size for the swap file in the filesystem that best meets the needs of your software appliance. The default value for this is 128 MB.