These are notes I made while creating a new xvm hypervisor on Precise: - create schroot with 'sbuild-createchroot /srv/chroot/precise-amd64-sbuild http://mirrors.mit.edu/ubuntu' - defang init inside the schroot: {{{ dpkg-divert --local /sbin/initctl mv /sbin/initctl /sbin/initctl.distrib ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl }}} - created /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d inside the chroot, containing: {{{ #!/bin/sh exit 101 }}} - I had to apply the patch from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471747 to the version of sbuild in Hardy to make the invirtibuilder work for precise - Right now, to build from a tag instead of a branch name with the invirtibuilder, you need to specify the commit that the tag points to, with the syntax {{{ (tagname)^{} }}} I'll fix this.