On 18/05/15 08:55, Andrew Stuart wrote:
Any ideas welcome.
To be more specific - is there some way to bake a filesystem into the image?
Not yet, but if some things had worked out differently yesterday, there
would have been now. I'll expedite that.
What sort of "top level" image do you need? For my stuff, I was
initially planning on simply using a ISO and then putting data images
onto that ISO and mounting them as part of the boot process. It's sort
of a hack, but dealing with files is easier than dealing with partition
tables. Plus, we can transparently fix it later.
Related: you obviously need to mount the root file system, so what sort
of mass storage devices do you see data images as on EC2? xenblk,
virtio or something else?
I also assume that you can't use xenstore on EC2, so you probably need
to bring the json-based baremetal config over to the Xen platform. I
think it's better to use json config everywhere and just transport it
from the host to the guest with xenstore on xl and as part of the root
image on EC2. Martin: do you have thoughts about this or some special
love for the old code with which you pioneered the rumprun concept? ;)
