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creating a debian VM
* qemu-img create -f raw debian-disk.raw 8G
* fdisk debian-disk.raw
** create 1 primary partition
* kpartx -av debian-diak.raw
* mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/$disk
* mount /dev/mapper/$disk /mnt/debian
* debootstrap wheezy /mnt/debian
* chroot /mnt/debian
* apt-get install grub2 vim linux-image-amd64 udev openssh-server
* create fstab
* create /etc/network/interfaces
* edit hostname hosts
* exit
* grub2-install --boot-directory=/mnt/debian/boot /dev/loop0
* create grub.cfg
* sync
* umount /mnt/debian
* kaprtx -d debian-diak.raw
start the vm and check it
references:
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_Arch_Linux_disk_image#Install_bootloader_on_the_guest
* https://gitorious.org/vmdebootstrap/vmdebootstrap/blobs/raw/master/vmdebootstrap
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