Deploying applications in the QM partition

The AutoSD architecture isolates non-critical (QM) applications from critical applications. This isolation mechanism is the QM software partition. In this architecture, the QM partition is an imageless container that uses a subsection of the host filesystem as its root filesystem. This means that you must place your applications in one of two locations:

• Configure OSBuild to copy critical applications to /etc/containers/systemd
• Configure OSBuild to copy non-critical applications to /etc/containers/systemd inside the QM partition, which is mounted at /usr/lib/qm/. The resulting path for QM applications is /usr/lib/qm/etc/containers/systemd.

To configure the placement of applications in the QM partition, create a new qm stage in your manifest file, and configure QM-specific operations in the QM partition.