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

Thu Jan 26 12:37:38 CET 2012

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:16, Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:
+> On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:30:23 Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> 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.
+
+I would consider at least those 3:
+ - a generic minimal system install ISO (quick to download and base
+from which we can generate more elaborate images)
+ - equivalent generic minimal system VM
+ - derivatives:
+   - a Vagrant image (same as above + a specific user/packages setup)
+   - your XBMC-based one
+
+I started playing with a boot.iso + auto_inst.cfg (this is really
+great, we ought to document it better somewhere about it) + Vagrant a
+few weeks ago, but didn't make it yet. Will clean this up and post it
+somewhere.
+
+>> 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?
+
+No idea.
+
+> What about publishing official images to Amazon EC2?
+
+Yes!
+
+> 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.
+
+I'd say both. Sharing configs and tools is great, having a few small
+images available is great too for those that prefer to focus on using
+it at once (and for cloud hosts too).
+
+If we were to automate the process, could we chain somehow this:
+ - bcd with a minimal system image
+ - isocheck
+ - vmbuild? foreach each vm config provided (we can store all this in
+svn), does:
+   - push specific auto_inst script into the install ISO
+   - run the ISO into the virtual environment
+   - package the VM
+   - checks
+   - deliver to download
+