[CentOS-devel] CentOS5 virtual machine image
Nils Toedtmann
centos-mail at nils.toedtmann.netThu Jan 25 15:16:26 UTC 2007
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Dear CentOS developers, there is a demand for ready-to-boot virtual machine images for distros like CentOS. Since i am an afinicado of CentOS and Xen, i would like to build and maintain a CentOS5-image. Is centos.org interested in hosting such a sub-project? Testing and tasting CentOS would get much easier, it would help making CentOS more popular. Planned features: * support for several VMMs (Xen3, VMware player/workstation/server, VirtualBox, UML, KVM, ...; maybe even VirtualPC ;-) * Click&Run for win32-users: 1. download & install vmplayer 2. download & unzip CentOS-desktop-image.zip 3. double-click "centos.vmx" * sparse flat disk image (most VMMs support this image format) containing two or three partitions (swap, /, maybe /boot) * kernels and initrds to run the image fully and para-virtualized * Firstboot script (setting root-password and hostname) * VMM config files, at least for the most popular VMMs (Xen/para, Xen/HVM, VMware player) * Documentation how to boot the image with those VMMs. Special notes on kernel-xen and virt-manager (CentOS5, FC6) * clean: never booted, empty /{tmp,var/{log,spool/mail,cache/*}} * all changes to the pristine image (like customized /etc/fstab, /etc/X11/xorg.conf) properly documented Different flavors: * arch: i386; maybe x86_64 * image: flat disk sparse; maybe flat filesystem sparse * scope: "minimal" (networking, sshd, yum, vim, cron, syslog); "standard desktop"; maybe "standard server" * archive: sparse-aware .tar.bz2; .zip for win32 hosts RoadMap: * wait for CentOS5-beta2 ;-) * create and post a minimal CentOS5-beta2 i386 image with xen- and vmware configs, wait for reviews/bugreport * create and post a standard desktop CentOS5-beta2 i386 image, wait for reviews/bugreport * if there are enough positive reports, repeat for CentOS5-final * release when/if centos.org is pleased with the (bugfixed) images Are you interested in such a project? I am eager for comments. Regards, /nils.
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