Re: FAI going to the cloud

2016-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:22:48 -0700, Derek Poon > said: > Other common formats include VDI, VMDK, and VHD.[1] Personally, I would make it convert to any recognized extension; any other extension on the user-supplied image name (whether .raw, .img, or

Re: FAI going to the cloud

2016-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Derek Poon
On Sep 27, 2016, at 8:24 PM, Thomas Lange wrote: > > thanks a lot for all your ideas. fai-diskimage was written as a > wrapper script for several reasons. First I tried to implement it as a > new action like 'fai install' but I had some problems with that. The >

Re: FAI going to the cloud

2016-09-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Hi Derek, thanks a lot for all your ideas. fai-diskimage was written as a wrapper script for several reasons. First I tried to implement it as a new action like 'fai install' but I had some problems with that. The wrapper script approach worked much better during the development. Second,

Re: FAI going to the cloud

2016-09-27 Diskussionsfäden Derek Poon
On Sep 22, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Thomas Lange wrote: > >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:31:54 -0700, Derek Poon >> said: > >> Instead of fai-diskimage as a separate command, have you considered making >> it a mode of the fai command itself,

Re: FAI going to the cloud

2016-09-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:31:54 -0700, Derek Poon > said: > 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

Re: FAI going to the cloud

2016-09-22 Diskussionsfäden Derek Poon
On Jul 29, 2016, at 7:27 AM, Thomas Lange 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 >

Re: FAI going to the cloud

2016-07-29 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven
On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 16:27 +0200, Thomas Lange 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