On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. To be fair, the original maintainer, Jeremy Katz, is actually picking up the ami-creator project again. He's taken a few of my patches, and Eucalyptus will probably start using his version soon. We'll be contributors, but he's the maintainer. :) Andy > 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? > > -- > Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list > infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
