Hello Karanbir,
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:38:18PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Hi,
CentOS-6.4 i386 and x86_64 images targetting OpenStack are now available for testing at http://dev.centos.org/centos/hvm/ Images are available for KVM, Hyper-V, VMware, Xen and any other HVM hypervisor. Although, the 6.x kernel has the pv support enabled, so should work fine under paravirt Xen as well.
Works for me with OpenStack Havana with kvm and your qcow2 image.
Images are published as raw, qcow2 qcow2compressed and vpc ( vhd ) for both i386 and x86_64 CentOS-6.4 The images represent media versions, and have not had an update run against them. Its highly recommended that in testing, please check this version *then* do a yum update and repeat tests to ensure that there is no test result change in the 6.4+updates tree's.
Keeping in line with the general CentOS Cloud strategy, ie to help people migrate or investigate cloud instances, we expect the images to represent as close as possible to a real machine CentOS install ( ie. no cloud specific user, people use root to login, selinux is enabled ).
This is a very good decision.
Image logs good to the log output and console seems to wok fine. Is there a root password setup? Ssh also accepts password login per default. (My favourite would be a standard password people can login on the console, but only allow ssh login via ssh keys. ??)
With some exceptions like isdn support is removed, as is cups and bluetooth since those things make little sense on a cloud instance ( nothing stopping the users from installing them later if they need to ).
Good.
Also, cloud-init is included. This is based on the 0.7.x stream and based off sources published by Red Hat in their RHEL-Common/ tree.
Good.
Apart from baseline testing, I am also looking for feedback on package manifests included in the images ( should we add something ? should we remove something ? ) and if there is any need / scope for publishing specific role images as well ? ( eg. should we do a LAMP image ? )
Minimal image first, this one looks good.
For people now looking at the new OpenStack Havana release: If you want to setup your own test cloud ontop of CentOS-6.4, please have a look at http://jur-linux.org/testwiki/index.php/CloudLinux/OpenStack
best regards,
Florian La Roche
P.S.: Will the script to setup this CentOS image also be available to allow for many stable/customized versions to show up?