02-06-2008
Yes, no in that order.
A live server is fine, the only thing is to be sure you have enough space for the image and that the NFS load won't adversely affect network bandwidth dependent apps you are using.
You can even use a vmware image of solaris x86 running under Windows.
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mic-image-convertor
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)
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