This directory contains elements necessary to build the Astara appliance with the diskimage-builder from the OpenStack project. 1) Install diskimage-builder via: pip install diskimage-builder or source at: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/diskimage-builder 2) Ensure a few require packages are installed: - debootstrap - qemu-utils 3) Add elements to path $ export ELEMENTS_PATH=~/astara-appliance/diskimage-builder/elements 4) Build image $ DIB_RELEASE=jessie DIB_EXTLINUX=1 disk-image-create debian vm astara 5) If you're testing with kvm, don't forget to build the nocloud iso image