Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 QA qcow image

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014, at 05:27 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote:

The easiest way to make your own would be to boot the network install boot.iso and create your own VM in your preferred virt platform. I used KVM and it worked fine. Once the install is done, customize as you see fit (like add an /etc/yum.repos.d/centos-alpha.repo for example). Shut the machine down and clone the disk image all you want.

The issue you get with that approach is having ssh keys, passwords etc. stored in the image.

If you're in a situation where you need to do this, at least look at: http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html

The correct thing to do though is to generate images cleanly via something like Imagefactory (which does anaconda-in-a-vm).