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

Thu Jan 26 15:28:47 CET 2012

On Thursday, 26 January 2012 13:37:38 Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> 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
+
+Why? Do you want to provide an installable (ie, drakx) ISO, that requires the 
+user to click through the installation? If not, skip this.
+
+>  - isocheck
+>  - vmbuild? foreach each vm config provided (we can store all this in
+> svn), does:
+>    - push specific auto_inst script into the install ISO
+
+Rather:
+1)Install
+-use virt-install to boot a VM with auto_install pointing to official repo
+or
+-modify draklive to install into raw volumes (which also uses auto_install)
+2)Convert raw volumes to OVF
+
+>    - run the ISO into the virtual environment
+>    - package the VM
+>    - checks
+>    - deliver to download
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+