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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Official VM images for Mageia 2?</H1>
<B>Buchan Milne</B>
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<I>Thu Jan 26 15:28:47 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Thursday, 26 January 2012 13:37:38 Romain d'Alverny wrote:
><i> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:16, Buchan Milne <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net</A>>
</I>wrote:
><i> > On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:30:23 Romain d'Alverny wrote:
</I>><i> > Generic VM images, or ones targetted at specific uses? If specific uses,
</I>><i> > it might be worthwhile considering live ISOs targetted at the use case
</I>><i> > with installation support.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > In my case, I would consider looking at a minimal XBMC-based (possibly
</I>><i> > with samba and a few other tools as well) live ISO/USB.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I would consider at least those 3:
</I>><i> - a generic minimal system install ISO (quick to download and base
</I>><i> from which we can generate more elaborate images)
</I>><i> - equivalent generic minimal system VM
</I>><i> - derivatives:
</I>><i> - a Vagrant image (same as above + a specific user/packages setup)
</I>><i> - your XBMC-based one
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I started playing with a boot.iso + auto_inst.cfg (this is really
</I>><i> great, we ought to document it better somewhere about it) + Vagrant a
</I>><i> few weeks ago, but didn't make it yet. Will clean this up and post it
</I>><i> somewhere.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> >> Target VMs: Xen, VMWare, Virtualbox, Vagrant (with a minimal install +
</I>><i> >> specific config), other, you name it, as long as it can be managed
</I>><i> >> (best would be to have these build automatically from source ISOs +
</I>><i> >> ad-hoc auto_install.cfg + post install conf).
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Most of these tools support OVF, so do we have tools that can generate
</I>><i> > OVF easily?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> No idea.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > What about publishing official images to Amazon EC2?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Yes!
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > I don't know if there is that much value in providing specific VM images,
</I>><i> > when instead we may want to look at providing good tools for sharing VM
</I>><i> > configs and tools for easily generating images from those configs.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I'd say both. Sharing configs and tools is great, having a few small
</I>><i> images available is great too for those that prefer to focus on using
</I>><i> it at once (and for cloud hosts too).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> If we were to automate the process, could we chain somehow this:
</I>><i> - bcd with a minimal system image
</I>
Why? Do you want to provide an installable (ie, drakx) ISO, that requires the
user to click through the installation? If not, skip this.
><i> - isocheck
</I>><i> - vmbuild? foreach each vm config provided (we can store all this in
</I>><i> svn), does:
</I>><i> - push specific auto_inst script into the install ISO
</I>
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
><i> - run the ISO into the virtual environment
</I>><i> - package the VM
</I>><i> - checks
</I>><i> - deliver to download
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Regards,
Buchan
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