OpenSUSE images are now supplied in the default virt-builder install

Since virt-builder 1.31.10, Cédric Bosdonnat has added a repository of OpenSUSE images.

Here’s how to install OpenSUSE Leap in about 4 minutes:

$ virt-builder -l
...
opensuse-13.1            x86_64     openSUSE 13.1
opensuse-13.2            x86_64     openSUSE 13.2
opensuse-42.1            x86_64     openSUSE Leap 42.1
opensuse-tumbleweed      x86_64     openSUSE Tumbleweed

$ virt-builder opensuse-42.1
[   1.2] Downloading: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/virt-builder-images/images/openSUSE-Leap-42.1.x86_64-0.0.1-Build1.6.qcow2.xz
######################################################################## 100.0%
[ 133.1] Planning how to build this image
[ 133.1] Uncompressing
[ 142.5] Converting qcow2 to raw
[ 146.4] Opening the new disk
[ 177.3] Setting a random seed
[ 177.3] Setting passwords
virt-builder: Setting random password of root to ***
[ 178.1] Finishing off
                   Output file: opensuse-42.1.img
                   Output size: 6.0G
                 Output format: raw
            Total usable space: 5.8G
                    Free space: 5.0G (85%)

$ virt-install --import --name opensuse \
    --ram 4096 \
    --disk opensuse-42.1.img,format=raw \
    --os-variant opensuse13.1

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2 responses to “OpenSUSE images are now supplied in the default virt-builder install

  1. this is awesome ! great job… thanks Cédric 🙂

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