JoeBiellik / make-vm

Makefile based KVM virtual machine builder

make-vm

Simple Makefile script for quickly generating KVM virtual machine images for libvirt. Designed for and tested on CentOS 6.

Requires

• python-virtinst (virt-install)
• libguestfs-tools (virt-resize)

Usage

# The default command will build a new gold card image for cloning
make
# or specify a custom kickstart script
make KS=custom.ks

# You can then quickly make a cloned image
make clone NAME=test VCPU=4 RAM=4096
# You can run a custom shell script on first boot
make clone NAME=database FB=install_mysql.sh

# Destroy the base image
make clean

Have a look at the source to see all the available configuration options.