On Thursday, 26 January 2012 13:37:38 Romain d'Alverny wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:16, Buchan Milne <[email protected]> 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
