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Thomas Lange committed Sep 5, 2018
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.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
.TH fai-diskimage 8 "November 2017" "FAI 5.4"
.TH fai-diskimage 8 "September 2018" "FAI 5.7"

.SH NAME
fai-diskimage \- create a disk image for booting a VM
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.B fai-diskimage
creates a disk image that can be used with Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox,
VMware, Xen or by your cloud infrastructure. It runs the Fully
VMware, Xen, Android device or by your cloud infrastructure. It runs the Fully
Automatic Installation using a list of FAI classes. In the end you
have a bootable disk image.
have a bootable disk image. Following formats are
supported: .raw.xz, .raw.zst, .qcow2, .vdi, .vhdx, .vmdk, .simg.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-c, --class \fICLASS\fR[,\fICLASS\fR]
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# fai-mk-configspace

fai-diskimage is not limited to creating images for virtual
machines. The raw images can also be copies (via dd) onto a real disk
machines. The raw images can also be copied (via dd) onto a real disk
for booting bare metal hosts.

You can start fai-diskimage in a clean shell environment by calling:
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