autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud(1)

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

SYNOPSIS
autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud [options]

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

*   Resize the image adding 20 GB to its default size (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 autopkgtest-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 you have an apt proxy configured on the local host, the VM will automatically use this; 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 by this size (default: 20G).

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

--force-use-cached
    Use cached image without verifying it against the currently published digests.

-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.

--post-command=COMMAND
    Run shell command in the VM after the setup.

--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.

--timeout=SECONDS
    Timeout for cloud-init. Default is 3600 s.

--ram-size=MiB
    VM RAM size in MiB. Default is 512 MiB.

--cpus=CPUS
    VM number of CPUs. Default is 1.

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
        autopkgtest-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.

ENVIRONMENT
If the $AUTOPKGTEST_KEEP_APT_SOURCES environment variable is set to a non-empty value, autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud will keep whatever /etc/apt/sources.list was set in the downloaded image. Otherwise, if the $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE environment variable is set to a non-empty value, for example AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE=/home/me/ubuntu/sources.list, then autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud will read that file (on the host system) and use it to populate /etc/apt/sources.list in the virtual machine; or if the $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES environment variable is set to a non-empty value, for example AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES=$(cat /home/me/ubuntu/sources.list), autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud will write it directly into /etc/apt/sources.list in the virtual machine. When $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE or $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES contain sources in the deb822 format, then sources are written to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources in the virtual machine, rather than /etc/apt/sources.list.

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

AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT
autopkgtest-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.