Correct permissions problem in root filesystem by using febootstrap-run

[libguestfs.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index c8b4242..369295c 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ For discussion please use the fedora-virt mailing list:
 Requirements
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-- Recent QEMU with vmchannel support
+- recent QEMU with vmchannel support
 
 - febootstrap >= 1.2
 
 - XDR, rpcgen
 
-- (Optional) Local Fedora mirror
+- (Optional) local Fedora mirror
 
 Running ./configure will check you have all the requirements installed
 on your machine.
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ Building
 
 Then make the daemon, library and root filesystem:
 
-  ./configure [--mirror=URI]
+  ./configure [--with-mirror=URI]
   make
 
-Use the optional --mirror parameter to specify the URI of a local
+Use the optional --with-mirror parameter to specify the URI of a local
 Fedora mirror.  See the discussion of the MIRROR parameter in the
 febootstrap(8) manpage.
 
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ these commands as root:
 
   make install
 
+
 Notes on cross-architecture support
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@@ -72,12 +73,27 @@ operations and NFS export will work fine, but running commands in
 guests may not be possible.
 
 To enable this requires work for cross-architecture and 32-on-64
-support in febootstrap.
+support in febootstrap, fakeroot and fakechroot.
 
 The daemon/ directory contains its own configure script.  This is so
 that in future we will be able to cross-compile the daemon.
 
 
+Mirroring tip
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Having a local Fedora mirror makes a massive difference to the time it
+takes to build and rebuild initramfs images.
+
+Failing that, use squid to cache yum downloads, but read this first:
+https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2006-August/009041.html
+(In brief, because yum chooses random mirrors each time, squid doesn't
+work very well with default yum configuration.  To get around this,
+choose a Fedora mirror which is close to you, set this with
+'./configure --with-mirror=[...]', and then proxy the whole lot
+through squid by setting http_proxy environment variable).
+
+
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