On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. What's the drop dead date for getting stuff into F19? Speaking of EPEL6, I'm not that familiar with the Fedora/EPEL build process and was wondering if I need to create a single src RPM that can produce both EPEL and Fedora RPMs or can I have two different src RPMs one for Fedora and one for EPEL with different contents (and different spec files)? >> 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? Unfortunatley no. That's a little bit of a short notice :-) >> 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! Ok, I'll start to bug people. ...Juerg > -- > Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
