[Mageia-dev] Official VM images for Mageia 2?

Thu Jan 26 11:16:43 CET 2012

On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:30:23 Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> Hi there,
+> 
+> I'd like to discuss/plan how we can build and distribute ready to use
+> VM images of Mageia 2 along with original ISOs, from our download
+> pages.
+
+Generic VM images, or ones targetted at specific uses? If specific uses, it 
+might be worthwhile considering live ISOs targetted at the use case with 
+installation support.
+
+In my case, I would consider looking at a minimal XBMC-based (possibly with 
+samba and a few other tools as well) live ISO/USB.
+
+> Target VMs: Xen, VMWare, Virtualbox, Vagrant (with a minimal install +
+> specific config), other, you name it, as long as it can be managed
+> (best would be to have these build automatically from source ISOs +
+> ad-hoc auto_install.cfg + post install conf).
+
+Most of these tools support OVF, so do we have tools that can generate OVF 
+easily?
+
+BTW., I have access to a VMWare vSphere environment with capaticy to run a few 
+extra VMs (for testing images). For images for VMWare, it may also be 
+worthwhile including some of the VMWare tools (there are open-source versions, 
+and I believe Ubuntu ships these):
+
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/
+
+(We have X11 driver and mouse input driver, but these should provide drag 'n' 
+drop, window resize, memory ballooning, guest shutdown etc.).
+
+What about publishing official images to Amazon EC2?
+
+> Uses can be: evaluation, development/staging environments, you name it too.
+> 
+> hurdman has some experience and is a first volunteer to work on this;
+> others? (input, recipes, hands).
+
+I don't know if there is that much value in providing specific VM images, when 
+instead we may want to look at providing good tools for sharing VM configs and 
+tools for easily generating images from those configs.
+
+Some interesting tools which we don't seem to have yet:
+http://libguestfs.org/
+http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/
+
+http://libguestfs.org/virt-copy-in.1.html
+http://libguestfs.org/virt-tar-in.1.html
+http://libguestfs.org/febootstrap.8.html
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+