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#TIB FILES CONVERT TO ISO ISO#

(the desired destination of nf is likely different on a non-TKL-based rootfs). Assuming the machine you're working on has working DNS, doing the following before you chroot should fix this:Д¬p /etc/nf turnkey-core.rootfs/var/run The same might happen to you depending on how your network is set up. (2) When I chrooted to apply the generic kernel to the rootfs, I found that I had no DNS (so apt-get couldn't find repositories).

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I switched to a Fedora host and was able to install kpartx ('yum install kpartx' iirc) and complete the rest of the procedure here. However I was using another TKL-based VM as the 'working machine' to run the commands on and I had trouble installing kpartx here. In fact its probable that you will - I certainly did on the Turnkey/Postgres-based VM I started with. (1) Alon mentioned that you may find you have multiple partitions on your source VMDK. Heres another couple of 'gotchas' I experienced: However when I tried this it got pretty far into the installation - including seemingly copying the rootfs to the disk - but then failed while trying to set up grub.Д«ut I'll leave that to another post - I think even the creation of the 'Live ISO' was a good start! The configuration console magically included a new 'Install to Disk' option.

I was able to run my appliance directly off the ISO. I had partial success with this - I was able to create an ISOВ that worked perfectly as a 'Live CD'. Tklpatch-prepare-cdroot turnkey-core.rootfs/ turnkey-core.cdroot/Д®ver needed to package a VM as a distributable ISO? Post a comment!

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If you want to include the TurnKey bootsplash and bootmenu, extract the cdroot from a TurnKey ISO and tell tklpatch-prepare-cdroot to use it as a template. Tklpatch-prepare-cdroot turnkey-core.rootfs/Д«onus: By default the ISO will boot automatically. GOTCHA 2: If your VM uses a kernel optimized for virtualization (like the one included in the TurnKey VM builds), you need to replace it with a generic kernel, and also remove vmware-tools if installed.Дpkg -purge $(dpkg-query -showformat='$ ' -W '*-virtual')ДЇinally, prepare the cdroot and generate the ISO. Rsync -a -t -r -S -I turnkey-core.mount/ turnkey-core.rootfsД«ecause the VM is an installed system as opposed to the ISO, the file system table needs to be updated. Now, make a copy of the root filesystem and unmount the loopback. Mount /dev/mapper/$(basename $loopdev)p1 turnkey-core.mountД®xtract root filesystem and tweak for ISO configuration

# p1 refers to the first partition (rootfs) Loopdev=$(losetup -s -f turnkey-core.raw) You will need kpartx to setup the mappings. You'll need to setup the loop device, partition mappings and finally mount the rootfs partition. GOTCHA 1: If your VM has partitions, it's a little tricker. Mount -o loop turnkey-core.raw turnkey-core.mount Next, mount the raw disk as a loopback device. Qemu-img convert -f vmdk turnkey-core.vmdk -O raw turnkey-core.raw If you are using a different virtualization platform such as Virtualbox, see this post on converting a VDI to a raw image.

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I'll show how to convert a VMWare VMDK image into raw disk format. If you are not using a TurnKey installation, see the TKLPatch installation notes.

I suppose that's a good enough reason, so lets get to it.Д¬onvert VM disk to raw image and mount itДЇirst we need to get qemu-img, a tool bundled with qemu (KVM's virtualization backend) to convert the VM disk to a raw image, and TKLPatch, the TurnKey customization mechanism to package the ISO. Good question, the answer for Conor Fox (who was the inspiration for this post - thanks Conor!) was to distribute his customized TurnKey PostgreSQL image so others could use it.Дistributing an ISO as opposed to a VM image allows it to be installed on any virtualization platform, as well as on bare metal, with the added bonus of running live. Why would anyone in their right mind want to convert a VM into an ISO?

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