DefiningNewGuests

Defining New Guests

Let's say you have a guest image that you've carefully prepared, and the JeOS just doesn't cut it. Here's how you add new guests:

Linux Based Custom Guest

If your guest is Linux based, you can add a config file snippet describing your test (We have a bunch of pre-set values for linux in the default config).

The drop in directory is

shared/cfg/guest-os/Linux/LinuxCustom

You can add, say, foo.cfg to that dir with the content:

FooLinux:
    image_name = images/foo-linux

Which would make it possible to specify this custom guest using

./run -t qemu -g LinuxCustom.FooLinux

Provided that you have a file called images/foo-linux.qcow2, if using the qcow2 format image. If you wish to provide a raw image file, you must use

./run -t qemu -g LinuxCustom.FooLinux --image-type raw

Other useful params to set (not an exaustive list):

# shell_prompt is a regexp used to match the prompt on aexpect.
# if your custom os is based of some distro listed in the guest-os
# dir, you can look on the files and just copy shell_prompt
shell_prompt = [*]$
# If you plan to use a raw device, set image_device = yes
image_raw_device = yes
# Password of your image
password = 123456
# Shell client used (may be telnet or ssh)
shell_client = ssh
# Port were the shell client is running
shell_port = 22
# File transfer client
file_transfer_client = scp
# File transfer port
file_transfer_port = 22

Windows Based Custom Guest

If your guest is Linux based, you can add a config file snippet describing your test (We have a bunch of pre-set values for linux in the default config).

The drop in directory is

shared/cfg/guest-os/Windows/WindowsCustom

You can add, say, foo.cfg to that dir with the content:

FooWindows:
    image_name = images/foo-windows

Which would make it possible to specify this custom guest using

./run -t qemu -g WindowsCustom.FooWindows

Provided that you have a file called images/foo-windows.qcow2, if using the qcow2 format image. If you wish to provide a raw image file, you must use

./run -t qemu -g WindowsCustom.FooWindows --image-type raw

Other useful params to set (not an exaustive list):

# If you plan to use a raw device, set image_device = yes
image_raw_device = yes
# Attention: Changing the password in this file is not supported,
# since files in winutils.iso use it.
username = Administrator
password = 1q2w3eP