On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Sven Kieske <S.Kieske@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just dived a little in virt-builder and here are my findings: > > 1. It's awesome! > > Am 18.06.2014 12:46, schrieb George Dunlap: >> So it looks like we might want to recommend three potential paths we >> could recommend people to explore: >> >> 1) For basic CentOS VMs, use a CentOS-provided cloud image, with our >> custom metadata tweaking script. > > 2. Why create a custom script if maybe virt-builder can handle it? > I don't know if you can point virt-builder to other images than > those on libguestfs.org, but this should be possible, include an centos > cloud-image on libguestfs.org and just use virt-builder You can point virt-builder to another repo; and in fact, the guys on the libguestfs development list said that them hosting their own template repo was meant to be a temporary measure, and that long-term they'd like to see distros hosting their own templates. But as to "why", did you miss that "yum install libguestfs" wants to bring in an *additional* 178 packages, more than doubling the size of a base installation? :-) I think for a lot of people that will be fine; but I agree with KB, that we should also have a really lightweight way for people to just get VMs up and running. -George _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
