On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Sven Kieske S.Kieske@mittwald.de wrote:
I just dived a little in virt-builder and here are my findings:
- It's awesome!
Am 18.06.2014 12:46, schrieb George Dunlap:
So it looks like we might want to recommend three potential paths we could recommend people to explore:
- For basic CentOS VMs, use a CentOS-provided cloud image, with our
custom metadata tweaking script.
- Why create a custom script if maybe virt-builder can handle it? I don't know if you can point virt-builder to other images than
those on libguestfs.org, but this should be possible, include an centos cloud-image on libguestfs.org and just use virt-builder
You can point virt-builder to another repo; and in fact, the guys on the libguestfs development list said that them hosting their own template repo was meant to be a temporary measure, and that long-term they'd like to see distros hosting their own templates.
But as to "why", did you miss that "yum install libguestfs" wants to bring in an *additional* 178 packages, more than doubling the size of a base installation? :-)
I think for a lot of people that will be fine; but I agree with KB, that we should also have a really lightweight way for people to just get VMs up and running.
-George