On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote:
Background: appliance-creator, as part of Thincrust, isn't really maintained anymore. It'd be nice to switch to something else. There's two main options that I can see: 1. ami-creator, as maintained by the Eucalyptus project. This basically works the same way as the appliance-creator but is maintained. 2. livemedia-creator. This does a "real" install, using anaconda inside a VM. The second has the obvious disadvantage of needing to launch a VM. Richard Jones suggest that running under fully-emulated qemu layered in a VM builder might not be so bad because we'll be io-bound anyway. It has the advantage of doing exactly what anaconda does, which will make it easier to track the standard Fedora install. We'd also be less insulated from possible breakage due to anaconda development, which from an overall point of view is both good and bad. In any case, I'd like to start running an image creation task automatically nightly if possible. What do the people actually running the builders think about this?
Dumb question time - for building an image using ami-creator you just need fast access to the just-built/koji repos an instance to run ami-creator on and a place to store the results....
Why don't we spin up a persistent euca instance, give you some disk space and a cron job. You can just run ami-creator w/a sensible kickstart...
Trivial and disposable. -sv _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
