RHEL lx-brand Image Builder

This is a collection of scripts used for creating an LX-brand RHEL image.

Requirements

In order to use these scripts you'll need:

• A RHEL running in a KVM virtual machine or bare metal (required for the install script) with git installed. Running install in a CentOs lx-brand zone is not supported. The major version of the RHEL machine you use to run the install script must be the same as the version you intend to install in the chroot directory (e.g., if you want to install RHEL 7, your host machine should also be RHEL 7)
• A SmartOS (or SDC headnode) install (required for the create-lx-image script)

Usage

Create a RHEL install tarball via the install script

On a RHEL 7.X machine, do the following:

1. Clone this repo to your RHEL machine: git clone https://github.com/blackwood821/rhel-lx-brand-image-builder
2. Change to the repo directoru: cd rhel-lx-brand-image-builder
3. Run ./install -d <chroot> -r <release rpm> -i <image name> -p <proper name> -D <image desc> to install RHEL 7.X in a given directory. This will create a tarball of the installation in your working directory (named <image name>-$YYMMDD.tar.gz). See ./install -h for detailed usage.

Create an lx brand image with the create-lx-image script

On a SmartOS in the global zone.

1. Clone this repo (if you have git installed) or download and upack it
2. Copy the tarball you created above to your SmartOS machine or SDC headnode and run ./create-lx-image -t <tarball> -k <kernel version> -m <min platform> -i <image name> -d <desc>. This will create the image file and manifest.