Re: [Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

2012-04-26 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 06:14:22PM -0700, Justin Santa Barbara wrote: How does everyone build OpenStack disk images? The official documentation describes a manual process (boot VM with ISO), which is sub-optimal in terms of repeatability / automation / etc. I'm hoping we can do better! I

Re: [Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

2012-04-26 Thread Lorin Hochstein
Broader question: what's the best place to capture this information? Right now, there's a chapter in the OpenStack Compute Admin Guide about images, but I'm tempted to break out a new document dedicated to creating and obtaining appropriate images that are compatible with OpenStack (or, more

Re: [Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

2012-04-26 Thread Razique Mahroua
Hey Lorin,maybe the starter guide ? since it already contains pretty much everything to discover OPS ? Nuage Co - Razique Mahrouarazique.mahr...@gmail.com Le 26 avr. 2012 à 15:10, Lorin Hochstein a écrit :Broader question: what's the best place to capture this information?Right now, there's a

Re: [Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

2012-04-26 Thread Joe Breu
The oz tool that Daniel mentions makes image creation and customization pretty simple. I've created some templates for building images at github.com/rackerjoe/oz-image-buildhttp://github.com/rackerjoe/oz-image-build if anyone is interested. --- Joseph Breu Deployment Engineer Rackspace Cloud

Re: [Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

2012-04-26 Thread Jay Pipes
On 04/26/2012 04:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: If you have a KVM enabled machine, then 'Oz' has the ability to create JeOS images for all the common distros you'll find. It is a very simple command line tool that just focuses on image building image customization (adding more packages to an

Re: [Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

2012-04-26 Thread Jay Pipes
On 04/26/2012 04:42 PM, Scott Moser wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Jay Pipes wrote: On 04/26/2012 04:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: If you have a KVM enabled machine, then 'Oz' has the ability to create JeOS images for all the common distros you'll find. It is a very simple command line tool

Re: [Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

2012-04-26 Thread Lee Thompson
I use vagrant Sent fom my iPone On Apr 25, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Justin Santa Barbara jus...@fathomdb.com wrote: How does everyone build OpenStack disk images? The official documentation describes a manual process (boot VM with ISO), which is sub-optimal in terms of repeatability / automation

[Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

2012-04-25 Thread Justin Santa Barbara
How does everyone build OpenStack disk images? The official documentation describes a manual process (boot VM with ISO), which is sub-optimal in terms of repeatability / automation / etc. I'm hoping we can do better! I posted how I do it on my blog, here:

Re: [Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

2012-04-25 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
IDEA: Add pxe boot support to nova (which seems interesting on its own!), and pxe boot from an installer image, then snapshot it. OR: Modify boot from iso image to allow the iso to attach separately (currently it replaces the root drive in KVM) so that you could boot from an iso but still

Re: [Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

2012-04-25 Thread Andrew Clay Shafer
Justin, I'm a fan of veewee. https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee Probably some work to support Xen, but should work for building KVM images. These docs should give a bit better idea. https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee/blob/master/doc/definition.md