Am Donnerstag, den 25.01.2007, 16:54 +0100 schrieb Daniel de Kok:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:16:26 +0100 Nils Toedtmann centos-mail@nils.toedtmann.net wrote:
there is a demand for ready-to-boot virtual machine images for distros like CentOS.
FWIW my uninformed opinion as a user: I have played with Xen support in the latest RHELv5 beta and Fedora Core 6, and I think it could well be the beginning of the end of prebuilt images for most uses. With virt-manager, bootstrapping a virtual machine is as easy as providing a repository URL and a kickstart file.
For those running RH-based distros on their VMM-host and knowing about kickstart files: absolutely true.
For those not aware of kickstart or running other distros (Debian based, gentoo) or other VMMs (VMware, VirtualBox) or other platforms (win32), RedHat's "virt-install" is not an option. Think about all those SuSE-users, ready to switch to centos ;)
Personally, I'd rather like to change my kickstart file a bit than downloading yet another (potentially untrusted) prebuilt image. YMMV.
That's why maintaining such an image at centos.org is important: The trust-levels of using a centos.org yum-repository or using an image downloaded from centos.org should be equal.
/nils.