Vnx-modify-rootfs

Updating or modifying a VNX root filesystem

In order to update or modify a VNX root filesystem (rootfs from now on), you have to:

Start a virtual machine directly mounting that rootfs and with Internet connection. You can do it in several ways:

• Using the vnx_modify_rootfs tool (recommended):

vnx_modify_rootfs <rootfs_name>

being <rootfs_name> the rootfs filename.

• Using the libvirt XML virtual machine definition use for creating the rootfs:

virsh create rootfs_XXX.xml

and manually opening the console using:

virt-viewer VMNAME

being VMNAME the name or number assigned by libvirt to the virtual machine (you can get it with "virsh list" command or just looking for the <name> tag in root_fs_XXX.xml file).

Once the

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rootfs_XXX.xml, which are libvirt specifications to start virtual machines with Internet connection (through a NAT) using the different VNX root file-systems. They are included to easily allow modifying root filesystems (for example, to install new software packages).

Modify root filesystem scenarios (root_fs_XXX.xml)

To modify a root filesystem, for example, installing new software packages, just start the associated libvirt scenario with:

To easy the process, you can use the vnx_modify_rootfs simple script that starts the virtual machine and opens the console:

/usr/share/vnx/bin/vnx_modify_rootfs root_fs_XXX.xml