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Distrobuilder 1.2 has been released

Mar 23, 2021

Introduction

The distrobuilder team is proud to announce its initial release, distrobuilder 1.2!

This release's highlight is the introduction of Windows image repacking.

LXD is able to run Windows VMs; for that it needs a Windows ISO and a bunch of specific drivers from a separate ISO which need to be loaded during the Windows installation.

To make things easier, distrobuilder has added the repack-windows command which takes both a Windows ISO and an ISO containing the specific drivers, and bundles them together. With the resulting ISO, Windows can be installed easily.

With this release also come support for Go modules, and basic context logging. For a more detailed log output, the --debug flag can be used.

The full list of commits is available below:

Detailed changelog
  • sources: Fix Plamo 7.x
  • Cosmetic update to the README.me (index.md)
  • Updated instructions
  • sources: Fix CentOS 8-Stream rootfs
  • luet: Fix gofmt
  • Remove out-of-place statement
  • generators: Add virtio-fs to lxd-agent init scripts
  • generators: Add copy generator
  • generators: update doc
  • Added missing definitions in generators hosts, hostname
  • generators: Fix lxd-agent openRC scripts
  • sources/openwrt: Use fallback image if necessary
  • sources/docker: Permit to use private docker registry with credentials
  • distrobuilder: Add repack-windows command
  • distrobuilder: Call Sync() before unmounting overlay
  • windows: Add balloon driver
  • windows: Add netkvm driver
  • windows: Add vioinput driver
  • windows: Add viorng driver
  • windows: Add vioscsi driver
  • windows: Add vioserial driver
  • windows: Add viofs driver
  • Add Github Actions
  • Remove Travis integration
  • README: Point build status to GitHub Actions
  • github: Align workflow with LXD
  • generators: Refresh lxd-agent systemd units
  • repack-windows: Check for genisoimage
  • generators/lxd-agent: Fix systemd path
  • generators/lxd-agent: Fix path in unit file
  • windows: Add support for Windows Server 2016
  • windows: Determine correct Windows paths
  • support changing interpreter with shebang
  • sources/voidlinux: Fix checksum file names
  • Fix bad calls to RunScript
  • oracle: Symlink /bin to /usr/bin if missing
  • sources/plamo: Don't override PATH in scripts
  • windows: Optimize registry editing
  • shared/logger: Add logger
  • main: Add --debug flag
  • main: Add basic logging
  • Support go modules
  • Makefile: Move go get to update-gomod target
  • .github/workflows: Remove go dependency section
  • .github/workflows: Update Go modules before testing
  • main: Always unmount WIM file
  • main: Cleanup on unsuccessful mount
  • main: Fix NPE
  • windows: Change flag s/version/windows-version/
  • doc: Add Windows section
  • doc/building: Mention --vm flag
  • doc/packages: Clarify url key in packages
  • doc: Add filtering
  • Update gomod

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