--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh -
+
+# Before running, make sure 'vmlinuz' in this examples directory is a
+# bootable Linux kernel or a symlink to one. You can just use any
+# kernel out of the /boot directory for this.
+#
+# eg:
+# cd examples
+# ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-NNN vmlinuz
+#
+# Also make 'guest-image' be a symlink to a virtual machine disk image.
+
+# This is a realistic example for 'libguestfs', which contains a
+# selection of command-line tools, LVM, NTFS and an NFS server.
+
+if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]; then
+ echo "Don't run this script as root. Read instructions in script first."
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ ! -e vmlinuz -o ! -e guest-image ]; then
+ echo "Read instructions in script first."
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+../febootstrap \
+ -i bash \
+ -i coreutils \
+ -i lvm2 \
+ -i ntfs-3g \
+ -i nfs-utils \
+ -i util-linux-ng \
+ -i MAKEDEV \
+ fedora-10 ./guestfs $1
+
+echo -n "Before minimization: "; du -sh guestfs
+../febootstrap-minimize --all ./guestfs
+echo -n "After minimization: "; du -sh guestfs
+
+# Create the /init which will scan for and enable all LVM volume groups.
+
+( cd guestfs && cat > init <<'__EOF__'
+#!/bin/sh
+PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH
+MAKEDEV mem null port zero core full ram tty console fd \
+ hda hdb hdc hdd sda sdb sdc sdd loop sd
+mount -t proc /proc /proc
+mount -t sysfs /sys /sys
+mount -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=620 /dev/pts /dev/pts
+modprobe sata_nv pata_acpi ata_generic
+lvm vgscan --ignorelockingfailure
+lvm vgchange -ay --ignorelockingfailure
+/bin/bash -i
+__EOF__
+chmod +x init
+)
+
+# Convert the filesystem to an initrd image.
+
+../febootstrap-to-initramfs ./guestfs > guestfs-initrd.img
+
+# Now run qemu to boot this guestfs system.
+
+qemu-system-$(arch) \
+ -m 128 \
+ -kernel vmlinuz -initrd guestfs-initrd.img \
+ -hda guest-image -boot c