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MIC-IMAGE-CONVERTOR(1)					      General Commands Manual					    MIC-IMAGE-CONVERTOR(1)

NAME

       mic-image-convertor - Convert a virtual machine image to a live image

SYNOPSIS

       mic-image-convertor [options]

DESCRIPTION

       mic-image-convertor can convert a virtual machine image to a live image, this is specially for developers, they will use VMWare player or
       KVM or VirtualBox to run this image and do some changes in place, then they convert this changed image to a live image to run in a real
       device.

       mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for mic-image-convertor, you can use it if you prefer to use GUI instead of command line.

General OPTIONS
       --version				  show version number and exit

       -h, --help				  show this help message and exit

       -F SRCFORMAT, --source-format=SRCFORMAT	  Source image format, possible values are: raw, vmdk or vdi (default: automatically detect image
       type).

       -I SRCIMG, --source-image=SRCIMG 	  Source image which was created by mic-image-creator or an image file system.

       -T DSTFORMAT, --target-format=DSTFORMAT	  Target image format, possible values are: livecd and liveusb

       -t TMPDIR, --tmpdir=TMPDIR		  Temporary directory to use (default: /var/tmp)

       -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR		  Output directory to use (default: current work dir)

       -S SUFFIX, --suffix=SUFFIX		  Image name suffix (default: date stamp)

OPTIONS For Live USB
       -i, --interactive			  Directly write into a USB disk.

       --fstype=FSTYPE				  File system type for live USB image, ext3 or vfat, the default is vfat.

       --overlay-size-mb=OVERLAYSIZEMB		  Overlay size in MB as unit, it means how size changes you can save in your live USB disk.

Debug OPTIONS
       -d, --debug	   Output debugging information

       -v, --verbose	   Output verbose progress information

       --logfile=FILE	   Save debug information to FILE

EXAMPLES

       Convert a VMWare image to a live CD image:

       mic-image-convertor -I your-vmware-image.vmdk -T liveusb

EXIT STATUS

       mic-image-convertor returns  a  zero  exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.

AUTHOR

       Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

SEE ALSO

       mic-image-creator(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-livecd-iso-to-disk(1), mic-image-manager(1)

perl v5.12.3							    2011-05-31						    MIC-IMAGE-CONVERTOR(1)

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MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)				      General Commands Manual					 MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)

NAME

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk - Convert a livecd image to a live USB image then write to a USB disk or partition

SYNOPSIS

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk [--reset-mbr] [--noverify] [--overlay-size-mb <size>] [--home-size-mb <size>] [--unencrypted-home] <isopath>
       [usbstick device]

       <isopath> is your livecd image path name, [usbstick device] is optional, if not provided, it will detect automatically and ask you to
       select.

DESCRIPTION

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk can convert a livecd image to a live USB image and write it to a USB disk or partition, it is different from mic-
       image-writer which is just a safer dd with progress bar.

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk can detect all the removable USB disks and let you select one of them, if you didn't insert any USB disk, it will
       ask you to insert until a USB disk is available, it can decide if your USB disk need to be formated and if your USB disk has an appropriate
       partition for this livecd image, all the operations are interactive and have warnings f they will damage your old data on your USB disk.

       mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for it.

OPTIONS

       --reset-mbr     Set MBR on your USB disk

       --noverify      Don't verify your livecd image

       --overlay-size-mb      Specify overlay size, the default size is 64 MB

       --home-size-mb	      Specify home size, the default is 0

EXAMPLES

       Write a Molib live image to your USB disk:

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk your-2.1-final.img

EXIT STATUS

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk returns  a  zero	exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.

AUTHOR

       Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

SEE ALSO

       mic-image-creator(1), mic-convertor(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-image-manager(1)

perl v5.12.3							    2011-05-31						 MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)
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