Hello, Today in another conversation[1], I received this feedback about Fedora cloud images. Not sure if there is bug open for this, if not, do I file one? [1] https://pjps.wordpress.com/2015/12/15/fad-singapore-2015/ +-- On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Deepak C Shetty wrote --+ | ... | How about having Fedora images that can be used out-of-the-box ? | | For eg: if we go to getfedora.org today, we have AMI, cloud images, | but to really use these, u either need a AWS account or need to have | a local cloud/openstack setup, otherwise (most typically) people | fire up a VM using the cloud image it gets stuck at the cloud-init | stage (thats where most of excitement of usign fedora goes down), | then after waiting for several minutes when the cloud-init times | out, it gives a login shell, where nothing works (which is expected | bcos you are supposed to use this with pre-injected ssh keys) and | then the end user just gets frustrated that he did everything he | could, came so close to using a bleedign edge fedora. but still | can't get into it. | | How about giving good documentation around hacking cloud images | (using virt-* tools) to enable ssh passwd auth, enabling root/user | login, so that its easy for newcomers to embrace cloud images | | Alternative could be to provide out-of-the-box working fedora | images, which anyone can use to boot using virt-manager, | virt-* utils or qemu cmdline and be able to login as root or | non-root with sudo access, also image comes with decent enough | root disk free space, so that embracing/trying out (which is | the first time experience) becomes memorable than frustrating | | Thoughts ? Thank you. --- -P J P http://feedmug.com _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
