> De : Stefano Zacchiroli [mailto:[email protected]] > Envoyé : dimanche 13 janvier 2013 16:50 > À : [email protected] > Objet : Re: Debian on Azure - vmdepot >
Hello ! Some answers inline. > I've a few questions and comments about the Wheezy image at > http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index?sort=Date&search=Debian : > > - How can people on this list play with that image? To test the image in situ, you'll need an Azure subscription and the instructions available at http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/WindowsAzureImage If that's a blocker, I can provide some access to VMs running on my subscription, but ideally everything should be tested in the same conditions and not rely on any prior configuration from me. > > In particular, it would be nice if you could provide guidance on how > to retrieve the corresponding disk image and mount it, it would be > much appreciated. I'm assuming you want to inspect the VHD for the Image (not a VM created from that Image). When creating a new VM with the azure create vm command, you can pass the --verbose flag. It will show you the location of the VHD image used to provision the VM. You can simply wget that location, and you'll have a vhd file that you can mount. It won't be useable as a system disk because there's no user provisioned, but you can inspect its content. I just did these steps for the version currently available (selecting North Europe datacenter), here is the location : http://vmdepotneurope.blob.core.windows.net/linux-community-store/community-17-50526934-193e-480f-ac4c-35429a0dc2f2-1.vhd That VHD is a normal vhd file. A quick search points to vdfuse to mount VHDs on a Linux box, but I have no direct experience on this. > What is the "azure" command I see in there? > Is it something DFSG-free or not? If not, we'll have to consider the > Azure images non-free as they cannot be built with an entirely free > toolchain. Comments and guidance are very welcome! > The azure command-line tool sources are at https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-tools-xplat and its license is Apache version 2.0. This tool is the simplest way to create a new VM from an existing image, but you don't need it to build the image. > - I also do wonder what is the relationship between VM Depot and other > ways of obtaining Azure images. Ideally, I'd like for Debian images to > be prominently listed in any public cloud "marketplace". Is VM Depot > that sort of marketplace for Azure, or is there somewhere something > more prominent we might want to get into? I know of no other public repository. Cheers, Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cc1a6f72200553439b97aed568a2059ac86...@db3ex14mbxc325.europe.corp.microsoft.com
