Synnefo » snf-image-creator

Installation

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This guide describes how to install snf-image-creator on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

system. It it highly recommended to have virtualization capable hardware.

snf-image-creator will work on processors that do not support virtualization

but it will be extremely slow.

Dependencies

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snf-image-creator depends on the following programs:

 * Python 2 [http://www.python.org/]

 * Python setuptools [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools]

 * Python Dialog [http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/]

 * Python bindings for libguestfs [http://libguestfs.org/]

 * Kamaki [https://code.grnet.gr/projects/kamaki]

 * Python sh (previously pbs) [https://github.com/amoffat/sh]

 * ANSI colors for Python [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ansicolors]

 * progress [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/progress]

 * Python interface to sendfile [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysendfile]

When installing snf-image-creator, the above dependencies are automatically

resolved.

Development repository addition

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In order to install snf-image-creator and the rest of it's dependencies, you

must first add GRNET's dev repo to your sources. You can use the following

commands:

.. code-block:: console

   cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d

   echo "deb http://apt.dev.grnet.gr precise main" | \

   sudo tee -a  apt.dev.grnet.gr.list

   echo "deb-src http://apt.dev.grnet.gr precise main" | \

   sudo tee -a apt.dev.grnet.gr.list

You will also need to import the repo's GPG key. You can use the ``curl`` tool

for this.

.. code-block:: console

   $ sudo apt-get install curl

Use the following command to import the GPG key:

.. code-block:: console

   $ sudo curl https://dev.grnet.gr/files/apt-grnetdev.pub | sudo apt-key add -

You can verify that the repo has been added successfully if snf-image-creator

exists as a package. First do an update of your sources:

.. code-block:: console

   $ sudo apt-get update

then check if snf-image-creator exists with the following command:

.. code-block:: console

   $ apt-cache showpkg snf-image-creator

snf-image-creator Installation

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If GRNET's dev repo has been added successfully, you can install

snf-image-creator, along with its dependencies, with the following command:

.. code-block:: console

   $ sudo apt-get install snf-image-creator

The installation might take a while. Please note that at some point during the

installation you will be prompted to create/update a "supermin appliance". This

is a setting regarding libguestfs and you can safely choose "Yes".