On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:49:48PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > On 05/09/2011 05:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:39:52AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > >>This patch fixes the creation of VM images. Previously, FC12 images were > >>created but the files necessary for FC12 image creation are no longer > >>available in the public repositories. This patch now switches it to > >>create FC14 images. To get such a new image one may want to remove all > >>content in /var/cache/libvirt-tck. I takes a long time for the image to > >>install, though. > >We can probably do a little refactoring to use the libguestfs > >appliance image soon, which will make things simpler... > > You say 'soon' -- is it not possible to do, yet ? By soon I mean 'when I (or someone else) gets some free time' :-) > >>The new FC14 image takes a lot longer to boot. Rather than waiting a > >>fixed timeout during which the VM presumably has booted it is now > >>waiting for the VM to become pingable and then starts the actual tests. > >...and libguestfs can boot in a couple of seconds. > I looked at the contents of the .img files with libguestfs-1.8.6-1. > I am missing an ssh daemon. Is that one supposed to be installed > upon the first image start? Also, how does one use libguestfs to > create a bootable image? I was actually hoping we wouldn't need to run commands via ssh, instead be able to use the lbiguestfs APIs, but that's to be investigated. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list