BCVK-LIBVIRT-TO-BASE-DISK(8)

✨ NAME ✨

bcvk-libvirt-to-base-disk — bestie, this is the section 8 manual page for making a base disk image for libvirt VMs 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

bcvk libvirt to-base-disk [OPTIONS]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so, what this does: it creates a base disk image for libvirt VMs. That's the whole vibe. 👑

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• SOURCE_IMAGE — the image you're building from. This argument is required, so don't skip it, bestie, it's literally not optional 🙈
• --filesystem=FILESYSTEM — the root filesystem type. Like ext4, xfs, or btrfs, for example. Pick your fighter ✨
• --root-size=ROOT_SIZE — how big the root filesystem should be. Think things like '10G' or '5120M' 🌸
• --storage-path=STORAGE_PATH — the path to the host container storage. If you don't specify it, it gets auto-detected for you. No thoughts, head empty, it just knows 🧚
• --target-transport=TARGET_TRANSPORT — the transport, like oci, oci-archive, or containers-storage. Defaults to registry 💫
• --karg=KARG — set a kernel argument. Go off, kernel 🫶
• --composefs-backend — default to composefs-native storage ⭐
• --bootloader=BOOTLOADER — which bootloader to use for the composefs-native backend 👑
• --allow-missing-fsverity — allow installation without fs-verity support, but like, for the composefs-native backend specifically. It's giving "I'll allow it" 💀

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

So here's the tea: by default, a base disk is created transparently when bcvk libvirt run is used. No extra steps, it just happens ✨

But — and this is the fun part — you can use this command to make sure a disk is generated in advance of launching multiple concurrent VMs. Pre-planning queen behavior, honestly 👸

Create a base disk:

bcvk libvirt to-base-disk --filesystem=ext4 --root-size=10G quay.io/fedora/fedora-bootc:latest

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bcvk(8) — go read that one too, iykyk 💜

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💖 VERSION 💖

This is v0.21.0, and honestly? Slay. That's the whole page, bestie — now go make some base disks 🎀💅🦋