This directory contains elements necessary to build the Akanda appliance with the diskimage-builder from the OpenStack project.

1) Install diskimage-builder via:

pip install diskimage-builder
or source at:
http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/diskimage-builder

2) Ensure a few require packages are installed: - debootstrap - qemu-utils

3) Add elements to path $ export ELEMENTS_PATH=~/akanda-appliance-builder/diskimage-builder/elements

4) Build image $ DIB_RELEASE=wheezy DIB_EXTLINUX=1 disk-image-create debian vm akanda

5) If you're testing with kvm, don't forget to build the nocloud iso image