"Would you like to be able to create custom, ready-to-use
operating system images that can be used as VMware images, Xen
virtual machines or live DVDs or booted from USB sticks? Would you
like to be able to convert your physical installation into a
deployable image? Would you like to be able to do all of the above
in a matter of hours, without dabbling with the command line, just
following a simple visual wizard?
"If the answers are one big yes, then you're reading the right
article.
"Kiwi is one of the tools used by the openSUSE Build Service, a
complete distribution development platform that allows you to
create and release software for openSUSE and other Linux
distributions."