On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:32:04PM +0100, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > Hi Matt, Hi! Thanks for your comments and interest -- it's very helpful. > 1) The default username ec2-user is too Amazon centric. I don't know > what the greater implications are of changing the default user but I'd > rather see something generic like 'fedora'. Yeah, I think there's general agreement about that, but we couldn't come to agreement about what it should be, so we stuck with that for this release. > 2) The console log is empty. It would be rather helpful to add > 'console=ttyS0' for debugging potential boot issues. Good suggestion. > 3) There's no growroot initramfs script so the root partition doesn't > get automatically enlarged to consume the whole disk. I'm working on > creating the missing packages cloud-utils and cloud-initramfs-tools. I > have them ready for EPEL 6 but not yet Fedora because it uses GPT. Cool. Let's put that in the plan for F19. > 4) dnsdomainname returns 'localhost' when it should return 'novalocal' > in our environment. Quite frankly I don't know how the domainname is > retrieved and need to look into it. Let me know what you find and if there are any fixes needed. > 5) The timezone is set to EST which doesn't necessarily match the > location of the VM. I think UTC would make more sense. I think you're right; anyone object? > 6) Is there a file with the image version or builddate somewhere in > the image? I couldn't find one but think it's a useful thing to have. There is not. I suppose we could write it to /etc/issue or to /etc/motd. > Do you think these could be addressed with a single generic image that > works both in EC2 and OpenStack, just like Canonical's Ubuntu images? We'd like to as much as possible, yeah. > Let me know what you think and how I can help. The above is a great start. Are you coming to FUDcon? > Also, would you (or the greater Fedora project in general) be > interested in a free account in the HP cloud? I think I should be able > to make that happen. Note that at the moment user's can't upload their > own images, they all have to be uploaded by HP (read me) until we make Yes, that would be very helpful. Thanks! -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
