Hi!

I have been working on adding support for Cloudstack in packer.io. This way it 
is simple to create either new templates from scratch or update an existing 
template. For creating the initial template from scratch we have a custom iPXE 
ISO that will fetch the iPXE-script via userdata, boot kernel+initrd and 
finally perform a kickstart installation (we use centos).

So the no more manual intervention to upload ISOs, select options in installer, 
stop the VM and finally create the template. Everything is automated.

Plan is to upstream this to packer proper or release it as a independent 
plugin. Currently the code need some cleanup.  

// peter  


On Tuesday 21 January 2014 at 06:26, Shanker Balan wrote:

> On 21-Jan-2014, at 5:10 am, Chad <c...@logicweb.com (http://web.com)> wrote:
>  
> > Thanks Erik.
> >  
> > I've installed O/S on dedicated servers over the years using USB method,
> > easily done as you boot off the USB.
>  
>  
>  
> I personally use PXE boot to install OS on bare-metal hardware. Running around
> in cold colos with a USB stick would be fun though. :)
>  
> > But I've never done it on a virtual
> > machine. Can you explain how an o/s installed in a VM that is already
> > created with Centos for example? I've used pre-made templates provided by
> > OpenVZ / KVM communities over the years for traditional non-cloud VPS’.
>  
>  
>  
> I would not trust pre-made template from 3rd parties for security reasons. 
> YMMV.
>  
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