imgcapture.1

NAME

imgcapture - Captures an image from a Linux diskful node and create a diskless or diskful image on the management node.

SYNOPSIS

imgcapture node -t | --type {diskless | sysclone} -o | --osimage osimage [-i nodebootif] [-n nodenetdrivers] [-V | --verbose]

imgcapture [-h | --help] | [-v | --version]

DESCRIPTION

The imgcapture command will capture an image from one running diskful Linux node and create a diskless or diskful image for later use.

The node should be one diskful Linux node, managed by the xCAT MN, and the remote shell between MN and the node should have been configured. AIX is not supported. VMs are not supported.

The imgcapture command supports two image types: diskless and sysclone. For the diskless type, it will capture an image from one running diskful Linux node, prepares the rootimg directory, kernel and initial ramdisks for the liteimg/packimage command to generate the statelite/stateless rootimg. For the sysclone type, it will capture an image from one running diskful Linux node, create an osimage which can be used to clone other diskful Linux nodes.

The diskless type:

The attributes of osimage will be used to capture and prepare the root image. The osver, arch and profile attributes for the stateless/statelite image to be created are duplicated from the node‘s attribute. If the -p|--profile profile option is specified, the image will be created under “/<installroot>/netboot/<osver>/<arch>/<profile>/rootimg”.

The default files/directories excluded in the image are specified by /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/<os>/<profile>.<osver>.<arch>.imgcapture.exlist; also, you can put your customized file (<profile>.<osver>.<arch>.imgcapture.exlist) to /install/custom/netboot/<osplatform>. The directories in the default .imgcapture.exlist file are necessary to capture the image from the diskful Linux node managed by xCAT, don’t remove it.

The image captured will be extracted into the /<installroot>/netboot/<osver>/<arch>/<profile>/rootimg directory.

After the imgcapture command returns without any errors, you can customize the rootimg and run the liteimg/packimage command with the options you want.

The sysclone type:

xCAT leverages the Open Source Tool - Systemimager to capture the osimage from the node, and put it into /<installroot>/sysclone/images directory.

The imgcapture command will create the osimage definition after the image is captured successfully, you can use this osimage and nodeset command to clone diskful nodes.

OPTIONS

-t | --type

Specify the osimage type you want to capture, two types are supported: diskless and sysclone.

-p|--profile profile

Assign profile as the profile of the image to be created.

-o|--osimage osimage

The osimage name.

-i nodebootif

The network interface the diskless node will boot over (e.g. eth0), which is used by the genimage command to generate initial ramdisks.

-n nodenetdrivers

The driver modules needed for the network interface, which is used by the genimage command to generate initial ramdisks.

By default, the genimage command can provide drivers for the following network interfaces:

For x86 or x86_64 platform:

tg3 bnx2 bnx2x e1000 e1000e igb m1x_en

For ppc64 platform:

e1000 e1000e igb ibmveth ehea

For S390x:

qdio ccwgroup

If the network interface is not in the above list, you’d better specify the driver modules with this option.

-h|--help

Display the usage message.

-v|--version

Display the version.

-V|--verbose

Verbose output.

RETRUN VALUE

0 The command completed successfully.

1 An error has occurred.

EXAMPLES

node1 is one diskful Linux node, which is managed by xCAT.

  1. There’s one pre-defined osimage. In order to capture and prepare the diskless root image for osimage, run the command:

imgcapture node1 -t diskless -o osimage

  1. In order to capture the diskful image from node1 and create the osimage img1, run the command:

imgcapture node1 -t sysclone -o img1

FILES

/opt/xcat/bin/imgcapture

SEE ALSO

genimage(1)|genimage.1, imgimport(1)|imgimport.1, imgexport(1)|imgexport.1, packimage(1)|packimage.1, liteimg(1)|liteimg.1, nodeset(8)|nodeset.8