debootstrap installs a basic Debian system into a directory, for use with chroot(8). vmdeboostrap is a wrapper around it to install Debian into a disk image, which can be used with a virtual machine (such as KVM).

At the moment vmdebootstrap only works on Debian squeeze, since extlinux on unstable/testing is broken. It'll get fixed, though.

• Source code in gitorius

See also:

• Kameleon
• grml-debootstrap (the --vmfile option, added after vmdebootstrap was written)