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 An opinionated cloud VM creation tool: create VMs on libvirt.
 
+## Usage
 
-```
-Usage:
-  mkvm name [name [name]] [flags]
-
-Flags:
-  -c, --cpu int                    the number of vCPU cores to assign to the VM (default 2)
-  -d, --disk int                   disk size (in GB) (default 25)
-  -h, --help                       help for mkvm
-      --image string               URL of the image to download (default "https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/bookworm/latest/debian-12-generic-amd64.qcow2")
-  -m, --memory int                 amount of memory (in MB) to assign to the VM (default 1024)
-  -p, --packages stringArray       packages to install on the VM
-  -s, --ssh-key-urls stringArray   URL(s) to SSH key(s) authorzed to access the VM. Expected in authorized_keys format.
-      --ssh-keys stringArray       SSH key(s) authorzed to access the VM
-```
 
 The default storage pool and network are used, unless overwridden by a config file at `~/.config/mkvm.yaml`. The following options are available:
 
@@ -25,3 +12,30 @@ storage_pool: default  # must match an active libvirt storage pool
 network: default       # the libvirt network to use
 bridge: br0            # bridge interface to configure VMs to use instead of a libvirt network. Ignored if network is set.
 ```
+
+There are some common flags to dictate the parameters of the VM:
+
+```
+  -c, --cpu int                    the number of vCPU cores to assign to the VM (default 2)
+  -d, --disk int                   disk size (in GB) (default 25)
+  -m, --memory int                 amount of memory (in MB) to assign to the VM (default 1024)
+```
+
+Other than that, different distros have different flags.
+
+### Debian
+
+```
+Usage:
+  mkvm debian vm-name [flags]
+
+Flags:
+  -c, --cpu int                    the number of vCPU cores to assign to the VM (default 2)
+  -d, --disk int                   disk size (in GB) (default 25)
+  -h, --help                       help for debian
+  -m, --memory int                 amount of memory (in MB) to assign to the VM (default 1024)
+  -p, --packages stringArray       apt packages to install
+  -r, --release string             debian release to install. Options: bookworm (default), trixie, sid (default "bookworm")
+  -s, --ssh-key-urls stringArray   URL(s) to SSH key(s) authorzed to access the VM. Expected in authorized_keys format.
+      --ssh-keys stringArray       SSH key(s) authorzed to access the VM
+```