On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Richard Harvey wrote: > Hi all, > > I see now that ubuntu 10.10 ships with these two extra files: > > maverick-server-uec-amd64-floppy > maverick-server-uec-amd64-loader > > This allows you to run 10.10 locally in KVM without a cloud so you can test > your images before deploying them. As detailed here: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/Images > > However you can't do this to test a 10.04 image, so my questions are: > > 1.) Has anyone managed to backport this so you can run a 10.04 LTS image > locally? > 2.) Or has anyone managed to achieve running a image locally using another > method?
It can be done... its just that I went through and made it user friendly for 10.10. What I was doing in 10.04 is available at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~smoser/+junk/boothooks/files read 'Workflow.txt' , thats the doc that is there... it was really just me wanting to test locally, and doing it in a hacky manner. > This would be extremely useful as I want to run the LTS version for the > deployments, but It would be nice to test locally at first. Yeah.... The big things that made this possible were a.) cloud-init features b.) cloud-init inclusion of 'uncloud-init', so that file (that is basically pushed into the instance by the 'boothooks' stuff above) is already there, so you dont have to mount loop and use root. > > Thanks in advance. If you wanted to clean some of the boothooks stuff up or better document it, I would be willing to help you along. -- Ubuntu-cloud mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-cloud
