On 02/26/2010 10:13 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Colin Walters<walters at verbum.org> wrote: >> In the big picture I think we need to tease apart a few different concepts: > > Yep, agreed. > >> * Stuff generic to fully automating creating a small-ish server >> skeleton accessible over ssh (target case: virt-install) > > The package set here seems almost reasonable (although removing > SELinux is kind of a no no); it has its warts, but it's part of being > "Fedora-y") > >> * Stuff specific to EC2 > > Yeah, this should definitely be split out. > >> * "Minimization" - For example, removing localization > > And I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this has no place in > any general purpose image. With AOS where you're going for the > absolute smallest size that you can get, meh, I guess. More general > purpose, the locale support keeps us from making the system > inaccessible to other parts of the world. > >> Let me reattach my proposed file here. > > Basically, I guess I'm saying I agree more with your config than huff's :-) I never said mine was perfect, however a good starting point for this type of discussion, which I have been wanting to have for a long time. When we started the AOS (like 2 years ago) the base requirements were basically: DHCP, sshd, yum, and selinux (which was disabled in EC2 due to issues w/ their infrastructure). ACPI was explicitly added, as Garrett noted, for the VM's to restart correctly, remembered EC2 is Xen biased, however this may not be necessary any longer. -D
