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diff --git a/share/man/man7/release.7 b/share/man/man7/release.7 index f3f897e..f73f7ca 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/release.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/release.7 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 11, 2014 +.Dd October 2, 2014 .Dt RELEASE 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -351,6 +351,61 @@ Set to the target directory within to check out .Va ${UBOOTSRC}/${UBOOTBRANCH} . .El +.Sh VIRTUAL MACHINE DISK IMAGES +The following +.Fa release.conf +variables are relevant only to virtual machine disk image builds: +.Bl -tag -width Ev +.It Va WITH_VMIMAGES +Set to a non-null value to build virtual machine disk images as part +of the release build. +.Va WITH_VMIMAGES +may also be specified as an envirionment variable passed to +.Xr make 1 . +.Pp +The option requires +.Xr mkimg 1 +version 20140927 or later. +.It Va WITH_COMPRESSED_VMIMAGES +Set to a non-null value to compress the virtual machine disk images with +.Xr xz 1 +as part of the +.Cm install +.Xr make 1 +target. +Note that compressing virtual machine disk images may take a very long +time on some systems. +.It Va VMBASE +Set to change the name of the resulting virtual machine disk image file. +The default value is +.Va vm . +.It Va VMSIZE +Set to change the size of the virtual machine disk capacity. +The default value is +.Va 20G . +See +.Xr truncate 1 +for valid values. +.Pp +Virtual machine disk images are, by default, created as sparse images. +When +.Va WITH_COMPRESSED_VMIMAGES +is used, the resulting files compressed with +.Xr xz 1 +compress to roughly the same size, regardless of the specified disk image +size. +.It Va VMFORMATS +Set to the target virtual disk image format(s) to create. +By default, the +.Va vhdf , Va vmdk , Va qcow2 , +and +.Va raw +formats are created. +See +.Xr mkimg 1 +for valid format values +.Pq requires version 20140927 or later . +.El .Sh MAKEFILE TARGETS The release makefile .Pq Pa src/release/Makefile @@ -407,6 +462,14 @@ Creates a directory named .Pa ftp containing the distribution files used in network installations and suitable for upload to an FTP mirror. +.It Cm vm-image +Creates virtual machine disk images in various formats. +The +.Cm vm-image +target requires the +.Va WITH_VMIMAGES +.Xr make 1 +envirionment variable to be set to a non-null value. .El .Pp Major subtargets called by targets above: |
