This is a package that contains a Fedora appliance, otherwise known as a small Fedora virtual machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) If you have just installed this package from an RPM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The appliance is located in /var/lib/a-fedora-appliance/ There are three files: - kernel: symbolic link to the kernel - initrd: initrd - root: the appliance disk itself To test boot the appliance, run: sudo /usr/bin/boot-a-fedora-appliance You probably want to copy /usr/bin/boot-a-fedora-appliance and modify it for your own purposes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (2) If you are building from the source tarball ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 'supermin' version 5 or above is required: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/supermin/ Do: ./configure make To run locally without installing: make local-build This creates 3 files (kernel, initrd, root) under appliance.d/ You can test-boot this appliance by doing: make local-boot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (3) If you want to do a Koji scratch build ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do: ./configure make make dist make koji-f18 or: make koji-f17