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Hi Debian has a couple of tools like fai-diskimage and vmdebootstrap, to build VM images, but they require being root, as these loopmounts partitions on which deboostrap is executed. Maybe installing grub2 needs access to block devices too. I was thinking of using libguestfs to sandbox those processes, by passing a build VM as a disk image and my build directory as a 9pfs mount to the appliance, and calling the build command via $g-...

...Clonezilla MENU LABEL ^Clonezilla kernel /clonezilla/live/vmlinuz append initrd=/clonezilla/live/initrd.img boot=live union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=788 fetch=ftp://192.168.0.1/filesystem.squashfs (ok - I have to symlink "filesystem.squashfs" too). Is there still some way to loopmount such an *.iso under PXElinux, or is that still my job as "root"? Viele Gruesse! Helmut

Good morning everybody, I get a: Error: Adding extent to vbd failed: device (vbd (uname file:/xen/slackware-linux-10/linu.img) (dev hda1) (mode w)), error 8 What is "error 8"? Where are those error-codes listed? My linux.conf: kernel="/xen/slackware-linux-10/vmlinuz-install" # <- the one from Xen memory=64 name="Linux" # <- is it right that this cannot have