mic-chroot(1) [debian man page]

MIC-CHROOT(1)						      General Commands Manual						     MIC-CHROOT(1)

NAME

       mc-chroot - chroot into a live image in order to do some changes

SYNOPSIS

       mic-chroot [options] <image|image fs>

       <image> is a live image file name, <image fs> is a directory path which
	contains the whole file system unpacked from a live image.

DESCRIPTION

       mic-chroot can chroot into a live image to do some changes, you can use it to unpack a live image then do some changes, once changes are
       done, you can regenerate a live image including those changes you did.

       mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for mic-chroot, you can use it if you prefer to use GUI instead of command line.

OPTIONS

       --version		      show version number

       -h, --help		      show this help message

       -s SAVETO, --save-to=SAVETO    Save unpacked filesystem to the specified path

       --unpack-only		      Just unpack an image, this is used tounpack an image with -s option together

       -b BINDMOUNTS, --bind-mounts=BINDMOUNTS	  Specify bind mount list, for example: -b "/proc:/proc;/:/parentroot"

       -c CONVERTTO, --convert-to=CONVERTTO	  Convert it to the specified type live image on exiting, the allowed value is livecd or liveusb

       --convert-only		      Just convert an image, this will skip chroot and directly convert an image/filesytem with -c option together

       -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR     Output directory to use (default: current work dir)

EXAMPLES

       Unpack an image to a directory and chroot into it:

       mic-chroot -s /my/fs/root

EXIT STATUS

       mic-image-convertor returns  a  zero  exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.

AUTHOR

       Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

SEE ALSO

       mic-image-creator(1), mic-convertor(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-livecd-iso-to-disk(1), mic-image-manager(1)

perl v5.12.3							    2011-05-31							     MIC-CHROOT(1)

MIC-IMAGE-CONVERTOR(1)					      General Commands Manual					    MIC-IMAGE-CONVERTOR(1)

NAME

       mic-image-convertor - Convert a virtual machine image to a live image

SYNOPSIS

       mic-image-convertor [options]

DESCRIPTION

       mic-image-convertor can convert a virtual machine image to a live image, this is specially for developers, they will use VMWare player or
       KVM or VirtualBox to run this image and do some changes in place, then they convert this changed image to a live image to run in a real
       device.

       mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for mic-image-convertor, you can use it if you prefer to use GUI instead of command line.

General OPTIONS
       --version				  show version number and exit

       -h, --help				  show this help message and exit

       -F SRCFORMAT, --source-format=SRCFORMAT	  Source image format, possible values are: raw, vmdk or vdi (default: automatically detect image
       type).

       -I SRCIMG, --source-image=SRCIMG 	  Source image which was created by mic-image-creator or an image file system.

       -T DSTFORMAT, --target-format=DSTFORMAT	  Target image format, possible values are: livecd and liveusb

       -t TMPDIR, --tmpdir=TMPDIR		  Temporary directory to use (default: /var/tmp)

       -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR		  Output directory to use (default: current work dir)

       -S SUFFIX, --suffix=SUFFIX		  Image name suffix (default: date stamp)

OPTIONS For Live USB
       -i, --interactive			  Directly write into a USB disk.

       --fstype=FSTYPE				  File system type for live USB image, ext3 or vfat, the default is vfat.

       --overlay-size-mb=OVERLAYSIZEMB		  Overlay size in MB as unit, it means how size changes you can save in your live USB disk.

Debug OPTIONS
       -d, --debug	   Output debugging information

       -v, --verbose	   Output verbose progress information

       --logfile=FILE	   Save debug information to FILE

EXAMPLES

       Convert a VMWare image to a live CD image:

       mic-image-convertor -I your-vmware-image.vmdk -T liveusb

EXIT STATUS

       mic-image-convertor returns  a  zero  exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.

AUTHOR

       Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

SEE ALSO

       mic-image-creator(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-livecd-iso-to-disk(1), mic-image-manager(1)

perl v5.12.3							    2011-05-31						    MIC-IMAGE-CONVERTOR(1)