adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud(1)

NAME
adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud - Create Ubuntu cloud image based VM for adt-virt-qemu

SYNOPSYS
adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud [options]

DESCRIPTION
adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud downloads an Ubuntu cloud image and configures it for autopkgtest's QEMU runner (adt-virt-qemu):

*   Resize the image to 6 GB (by default, you can change this with an option), which ought to be sufficient for most tests.

*   Create an user "ubuntu" with password "ubuntu".

*   Add apt sources for "restricted" and "multiverse" components.

*   Create an init.d script to start a root shell on ttyS1 at boot, so that adt-virt-qemu can be used without additional arguments or logging in through ttyS0. You can select release, architecture, apt proxy, etc. with options. The defaults are aimed at testing the development series of the architecture of your host system.

OPTIONS

-a arch | --arch=arch
    Ubuntu architecture name, e. g. "i386" or "amd64". Default is the host system architecture.

-r codename | --release=codename
    Ubuntu release code name, e. g. "trusty". Default is the current development series (this needs python-distro-info installed).

-m URL | --mirror=URL
    Mirror for apt (default: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu).

-p URL | --proxy=URL
    Proxy for apt. If apt-cacher-ng is running on the local host, the VM will automatically use this (i. e. use http://10.0.2.2:3142) otherwise there is no default.

--cloud-image-url=URL
    URL from where to download the cloud images (default: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com).

-s DISK_SIZE | --disk-size=DISK_SIZE
    Grow downloaded image (which have a default size of 2GB) by this size (default: 4G, i. e. the image will be 6GB big in total).

-o DIR | --output-dir=DIR
    Output directory for generated image (default: current directory).

-q command | --qemu-command=command
    QEMU command to run. This defaults to the qemu-system-* that matches your system architecture.

-v | --verbose
    Show VM guest and cloud-init output.

--no-apt-upgrade
    Do not run apt-get dist-upgrade during initialization.

--metadata=METADATA_FILE
    Use a custom cloud-init metadata file to initialize the cloud image VM.

--userdata=USERDATA_FILE
    Use a custom cloud-init userdata file to initialize the cloud image VM.

CONFIGURATION FILES
If you use lots of options, you can put parts of, or the whole command line into a text file, with one line per option. E. g. you can create a file trusty-i386.cfg with contents like
        -rtrusty
        -ai386
        --proxy=http://mysquid.mynetwork
        -v
and then run
        adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud @trusty-i386.cfg
The contents of the configuration file will be expanded in-place as if you would have given its contents on the command line. Please ensure that you don't place spaces between short options and their values, they would become a part of the argument value.

SEE ALSO
adt-virt-qemu(1), adt-run(1), http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com, /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/.

AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT
adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud was written by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> This manpage is part of autopkgtest, a tool for testing Debian binary packages. autopkgtest is Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Canonical Ltd and others. See /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/CREDITS for the list of contributors and full copying conditions.