Sample scripts for driving the illumos image-builder to produce installed disk images for various distributions.
You will need pfexec to work for your user account. Generally, you'll
want to have the Primary Administrator profile on your account; e.g., via,
# usermod -P 'Primary Administrator' jclulow
You will need a Rust toolchain. You can use a distribution package, or install rustup; e.g., via:
$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | bash
Once you have that, run the setup step to clone and build some of the tools we're using here:
$ ./setup.sh
After that, you need to produce a strap archive -- a pre-installed IPS image that we can transform into various output shapes. e.g., for OpenIndiana:
$ ./strap_oi.sh
This will likely take quite some time, as it has to download and install
packages for the whole OS into an alternate root. The strap archive is built
in three stages, and we can reuse the output of a prior stage in order to avoid
redoing the most expensive parts of the work. If you want to discard that work
and start from scratch, the strap scripts accept a -f flag to do that. See
the comments in strap.sh for more details.
Once you have a strap archive, you can produce the concrete output image of your choice. For example, the noconfig images don't include any automatic cloud metadata-based setup; they have a blank root password you can use on the console:
$ ./noconfig.sh
Once that completes, you'll have a raw disk image; e.g.,
$ ls -lh /rpool/images/output/noconfig-ttya-openindiana-hipster.raw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.95G Sep 3 12:48 /rpool/images/output/noconfig-ttya-openindiana-hipster.raw
You can provide that image to your hypervisor somehow; e.g., dd onto a zvol
or import into libvirt, etc.