On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:52:16AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Daniel P. Berrange > <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We are doing exactly this kind of model in the oVirt project. For the > > 'oVirt managed node' (ie the OS which hosts the virtual machines), we > > build a OS appliance image using a derivative of livecd-creator. This > > runs stateless - all persistent config is stored in oVirt's management > > system. We just load the entire OS image over PXE at boot time. We're > > currently building off Fedora 9 repos, and have a < 64 MB OS image. > > You may want to compare notes with him. I'm not sure what his use > case is other than 'I wonder how small I can make a workable Fedora > with a login prompt'. Looking at the notes on fedoraforum it seems we have a slightly different approach. He's gone for space saving by switching to busybox. Our goal was that we wanted to keep the same pieces of functionality, just strip out the bits we didn't need, so we don't have to spend time debugging differences between busybox & coreutils. Of course finding the bits which aren't needed is fun in itself & somewhat of a moving target. So whereever possible we've been filing BZ to get som5Ce RPMs split up into finer grained sub-RPMs If anyone's interested in size minimization, our kickstart %post script is here: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=ovirt.git;a=blob;f=ovirt-host-creator/common-post.ks Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
