On Jul 29, 2016, at 7:27 AM, Thomas Lange <la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> 
> A new beta version of FAI is available. It now includes a new command
> for creating cloud^Wdisk images. fai-diskimage can create a raw or
> qcow2 disk image without starting a virtual machine. This image is
> ready-to-boot for your VM or cloud instance. Currently it has no man
> page, but a help is printed when calling with -h.
> 
> I plan to release FAI 5.2 in september, so any feedback is welcome.
> 
> Here's a log from a call of fai-diskimage:
> 
> # fai-diskimage -u cloudhost -S900M 
> -cDEFAULT,DEBIAN,AMD64,FAIBASE,DEMO,GRUB_PC,CLOUD /tmp/disk

Thomas,

Instead of fai-diskimage as a separate command, have you considered making it a 
mode of the fai command itself, analogous to `fai dirinstall`?  It would be 
nice to be able to write hooks for diskimage installs.

Derek Poon
University of British Columbia, IT Services

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