I had a look at http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-20140614/ but I could not find any qcow images for a VM guest.
Is it planned to produce one ?
Creating a cloud instance is our lowest effort way of testing new releases.
Thanks Tim
Tim,
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I had a look at http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-20140614/ but I could not find any qcow images for a VM guest.
Is it planned to produce one ?
Creating a cloud instance is our lowest effort way of testing new releases.
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.
Let me remind everyone that Fabian Arrotin built livecd-creator for CentOS 7 a while ago (see: http://seven.centos.org/2014/05/centos-7-live-media-spins/) and there are some preliminary kickstart configs for it (https://github.com/CentOS/sig-core-livemedia). I was able to build my own LiveDVD with KDE, Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP, and inkscape yesterday and it is working great. Not related to cloud images but for anyone who wants to make Live media that also allows one to install, thumbs up.
TYL,
Sorry for dumb question, what URL to put in main repository mirror path?
On 15/06/14 16:27, Scott Dowdle wrote:
Tim,
----- Original Message -----
I had a look at http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-20140614/ but I could not find any qcow images for a VM guest.
Is it planned to produce one ?
Creating a cloud instance is our lowest effort way of testing new releases.
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.
Let me remind everyone that Fabian Arrotin built livecd-creator for CentOS 7 a while ago (see: http://seven.centos.org/2014/05/centos-7-live-media-spins/) and there are some preliminary kickstart configs for it (https://github.com/CentOS/sig-core-livemedia). I was able to build my own LiveDVD with KDE, Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP, and inkscape yesterday and it is working great. Not related to cloud images but for anyone who wants to make Live media that also allows one to install, thumbs up.
TYL,
Greetings,
The subject of this should probably be "CentOS 7 LiveMedia images" but I wanted to keep it in the current thread.
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Sorry for dumb question, what URL to put in main repository mirror path?
If you are asking with regards to a kickstart file for livecd-creator? Well the current (and surely very temporary) build tree is what you want... and there isn't a mirrorlist so you have to use a baseurl reference like so:
repo --name=centos7alpha --baseurl=http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-20140614/
I made a local mirror of the build tree so I could build over and move (although yeah, I do use a cache directory in my livecd-creator command line) and subsituted the URL for that and it worked great with a hacked up version of a kickstart I borrowed from the Fedora 19 spin-kickstarts package... before I discovered the ones Fabian Arrotin posted. If you have trouble with the public samples, email me directly and I'll give you a copy of the one that worked for me.
TYL,
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).
On 06/16/2014 09:11 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
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).
from the project side, yea - however on the user side the dep chain in libguestfs is quite large, most people will not want to install that on a production setup.
And regardless of what tool we use on the project side - the image delivered to the consumer end is still going to have metadata issues - there needs to be a simpler way to get root pass, network config and maybe a bootstrap script injected in.
a min-cloud-service to compliment https://github.com/cgwalters/min-cloud-agent would/could be an interesting win. is there something like that out there already ?
this is an ongoing issue in the centos-virt-list as well
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 06/16/2014 09:11 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
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).
from the project side, yea - however on the user side the dep chain in libguestfs is quite large, most people will not want to install that on a production setup.
And regardless of what tool we use on the project side - the image delivered to the consumer end is still going to have metadata issues - there needs to be a simpler way to get root pass, network config and maybe a bootstrap script injected in.
a min-cloud-service to compliment https://github.com/cgwalters/min-cloud-agent would/could be an interesting win. is there something like that out there already ?
I'm not exactly sure what your use case is but FWIW a wrote a simple EC2 metadata server as part of dwarf: https://github.com/juergh/dwarf/blob/master/dwarf/compute/ec2metadata.py. That could be pulled out and made a standealone service. While working on this I noticed that the avahi daemon interferes with the instance's metadata requests. I'm completely ignorant when it comes to avahi but wouldn't it be nice if it could be taught to fulfill the instance's requests?
Also, if the instance has the NoCloud datasource enabled (which it should) you can use a simple ISO9660 image to provide metadata to cloud-init: http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/datasources.html#no-cloud
...Juerg
this is an ongoing issue in the centos-virt-list as well
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On 6/15/14, 4:44 PM, Tim Bell wrote:
I had a look at http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-20140614/ but I could not find any qcow images for a VM guest.
Is it planned to produce one ?
Yes, there will ultimately be a cloud image available in the form of a qcow2 and I believe also AMI's for running on AWS.
We're also working on getting cloud-init and its deps imported to the CentOS repos for early-boot instance initialization. I should have some time this week to get that done. KB and other core devs can probably give you a better idea of timing around the cloud images than I.
Creating a cloud instance is our lowest effort way of testing new releases.
Thanks Tim
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On 06/15/2014 11:44 AM, Tim Bell wrote:
I had a look at http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-20140614/ but I could not find any qcow images for a VM guest.
Is it planned to produce one ?
Creating a cloud instance is our lowest effort way of testing new releases.
From Wednesday onwards we should have cloud images being done on the
nightly schedule as well, at the moment the main focus is on making sure the rpms all line up in a row and as we start tweaking and adapting the installer to be more CentOS, we dont break stuff on that side.
Mon / Tue I will have a bulk of the installer stuff done, then we can start looking at doing other media as well.
I know docker images are in the works as well
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