-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:21 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw very unusual format
On 11/10/16 03:21, TE Dukes wrote:
Just a question, what exactly are these images?
I see it mentioned on the CentOS website but not a lot of info on exactly what it is and what it does.
How does this differ from a CentOS 7 VM installed from an ISO? Are these just pre-made images?
these are images prebuilt to work in cloud infrastructure like openshift / amazon ec2 etc. they are pre-setup with cloud-init tools and are formatted
in
different backing filetypes.
you can use them for local VM's as well, but you will just need to do a
bit
more work since there is no way to login to the images without exporting
the
metadata externally to setup passwords and keys etc.
Sorry I haven't replied sooner. Still trying to digest this.
I appreciate your response. I have no idea what you said or what use they would be if you couldn't login except via SSH. How would you add content? I did see something about having to change the root password or something.
Might spin one up to see, I'm still lost.
Is there a demo site?
TIA