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 at 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.