Re: [openstack-dev] [dib] diskimage-builder v2 RC1 release; request for test

2017-03-17 Thread Andre Florath
Hello! Thanks for the bug report. Can you please file this as a bug? There is a very high probability that I introduced a change that leads to the failure [1] - even if this is fixed now there is a high probability that it will fail again when [2] is merged. The reason is, that there are no

Re: [openstack-dev] [tripleo][diskimage-builder] Status of diskimage-builder

2017-03-04 Thread Andre Florath
Hello! Thanks Greg for sharing your thoughts. The idea of splitting off DIB from OpenStack is new for me, therefore I collect some pros and cons: Stay in OpenStack: + Use available OpenStack infrastructure and methods + OpenStack should include a possibility to create images for ironic, VMs

Re: [openstack-dev] [dib] diskimage-builder v2 RC1 release; request for test

2017-02-24 Thread Andre Florath
Hello Ian, I think I found a regression: since [1] only the first package specified using '-p' is picked up. You can find a proposal for a fix under [2]. Maybe it's worth to include this in V2? Kind regards Andre [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/396702 [2]

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra][diskimage-builder] containers, Containers, CONTAINERS!

2017-01-12 Thread Andre Florath
Hello! > The end result of this would be we have distro-minimal which depends on > kernel, minimal-userspace, and yum/debootstrap to build a vm/baremetal > capable image. We could also create a distro-container element which > only depends on minimal-userspace and yum/debootstrap and creates a >

Re: [openstack-dev] diskimage-builder Package grub-pc is not available error running on Fedora 25 AArch64

2017-01-11 Thread Andre Florath
Hello! Looks that you are testing a somewhat uncommon combination ;-) The error points into the direction that Ubuntu Xenial for arm does not supply a 'grub-pc' package [1]. Would be good if you could file a ticket. Kind regards Andre [1]

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra][diskimage-builder] containers, Containers, CONTAINERS!

2017-01-06 Thread Andre Florath
Hello Paul, thank you very much for your contribution - it is very appreciated. You addressed a topic with your patch set that was IMHO not in a wide focus: generating images for containers. The ideas in the patches are good and should be implemented. Nevertheless I'm missing the concept

Re: [openstack-dev] [DIB] [TripleO] Should we have a DIB meeting?

2016-07-18 Thread Andre Florath
Hi! Very good proposal. Like to join. Hopefully we find a time slot - I have no idea where in the world (and in which timezone) you are all living. I personally would go for a separate meeting and not be part of the TripleO meeting - at least for the first some times. Kind regards Andre

Re: [openstack-dev] [diskimage-builder] ERROR: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install

2016-06-21 Thread Andre Florath
Hello Jay, Yes - the partition alignment is a problem: grub2 needs at least 63 blocks between the MBR and the first partition. Here for you the partition directly starts at block 1, therefore grub has no way to put its data on the disk. The root cause is, that all the partitioning tools I found

Re: [openstack-dev] [diskimage-builder] ERROR: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install

2016-06-20 Thread Andre Florath
Hi! Before things getting said twice (looks that there is some public interest here ;-) ): Can you please rerun and skip the partition part of the loop device for fdisk -l? E.g. instead of /dev/loop0p1 just /dev/loop0? (This was my original intend but maybe not correctly described.) Also can

Re: [openstack-dev] [DIB] Adding GPT support

2016-06-15 Thread Andre Florath
Hello Tony, it's already implemented twice :-) [1] is mostly exactly what your propose (except of the removal of sfdisk). The problems with this kind of patches: * If you want to do it somewhat general (i.e. allow more than one disk partition) the changes are getting (too) big. * It is not

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] [diskimage-builder] Howto refactor?

2016-06-02 Thread Andre Florath
Hi! > ++, but one clarification: We do have a spec process which is to use the > tripleo-specs repo. Since this is obviously not super clear and there is > a SnR issue for folks who are only dib core maybe we should move specs > in to the dib repo? Good to know! I'd really love to use the dib

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] [diskimage-builder] Howto refactor?

2016-06-01 Thread Andre Florath
Hi! Created a first draft of a 'Big Picture' document including an overview and a technical breakdown [1]. I'm not sure if this is what you expect or if still something is missing? Maybe we can start with etherpad - and do the first some iterations there. Later on I'd like to see it moved to the

[openstack-dev] [TripleO] [diskimage-builder] Howto refactor?

2016-05-31 Thread Andre Florath
Hello! Currently I'm working on diskimage-builder. My long term goal is, to add some functionality to the DIB's block device layer, like to be able to use multiple partitions, logical volumes and mount points. Initially I created a general partitioning element [1] and based on this an

[openstack-dev] [TripleO] [diskimage-builder] LVM in diskimage-builder

2016-05-17 Thread Andre Florath
Hi All! AFAIK the diskimage-builder started as a testing tool, but it looks that it evolves more and more into a general propose tool for creating docker and VM disk images. Currently there are ongoing efforts to add LVM [1]. But because some features that I need are missing, I created my own