June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 22m
English
Content preview from KVM Virtualization Cookbook
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Getting ready
We are going to need the following in order to complete this recipe:
- The block devices created in the previous recipe
- The debootstrap utility
- The chroot utility
To ensure that the swap and root block devices are still present on the system, run the following:
root@kvm:~# ls -la /dev/nbd0*brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 0 Feb 10 18:24 /dev/nbd0brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 1 Feb 10 18:24 /dev/nbd0p1brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 2 Feb 10 18:24 /dev/nbd0p2root@kvm:~#
If that's not the case, please refer to the Preparing images for OS installation with qemu-nbd recipe on how to associate the raw image with the /deb/nbd0 block device.
To install the debootstrap utility, if not already present on your system, execute the following code: ...
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