Developer(s) openSUSE Project Written in Perl Platform Unix | Stable release 7.03.75 Operating system Website KIWI website | |
KIWI is an application for making a wide variety of image sets for Linux supported hardware platforms as well as virtualisation systems including QEMU, Xen and VMware.
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It is developed by the openSUSE Project and used to create openSUSE Linux but can also be employed to build a variety of other Linux distributions.
Usage and documentation
KIWI has a large amount of documentation available, organised in 'cook books' which guide new users through the process of creating increasingly complicated KIWI images.
Basic usage requires the installation of a number of tools besides KIWI, most notably for virtualization. KIWI is a command line tool and has no graphical user interface.
KIWI in use
KIWI is used by a variety of organizations in a variety of places. Besides SUSE Linux and the openSUSE Project, IBM has a product using KIWI and DELL employs it as well.
SUSE Studio
SUSE Studio is a web interface (Ruby on Rails) to KIWI and the Open Build Service. It allows users to graphically put together a custom Linux OS and generate output including a large variety of virtual machine and disk images.