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KIWI
KIWI is a system for creating operating system images. An image is a directory with
a file containing the operating system, its applications and configurations, the filesystem
structure of the OS, possible additional metadata, and depending on the image type,
also disk geometry and partition table data. With KIWI you can create LiveCDs and
LiveDVDs, USB sticks, virtual disk to play in full virtual systems like VMware, XEN
images for paravirtualization in a hypervisor, and a PXE environment to boot from
network.

14.1 Prerequisites for KIWI

To build images with KIWI, you need the following preconditions:
1. Free space, the more the better.
2. KIWI is split into several packages, targeted to different image types. In any case,
you need the base package kiwi. Depending on your target image, you need the
following packages:
Image Type
Installation Media
Virtualization
Package Name
kiwi-desc-oemboot
kiwi-desc-xenboot
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