Hi Nils, Nils Toedtmann wrote: > 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. Sounds interesting, and going by just the amount of times such questions get asked, I'd say there were a fair few people interested in this as well. > Planned features: <- lots of interesting stuff -> > Different flavors: <- lots of interesting stuff -> > RoadMap: > > * wait for CentOS5-beta2 ;-) Why ? CentOS-4 is in quite a decent shape to make it into VM's and _lots_ people are going to want VM's for CentOS-3 ( Q: Why? A: I can imagine that lots of people who run CentOS are going to want to move to CentOS-5 for its newer hardware support and better performance on very high end machines ). It makes much sense to move the host to C5 and have VM's run the C3/ C4 roles. One of the things on the ToDo list here is a document for a known process to help with this migration -> Move a C3/C4 machine into a VM under C5, so that your C3/C4 apps remain supported and function as they do now, while still getting the added benefit of C5 on the host. > * 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 Once there is a basic setup and required infrastructure in place, doing roles is just a question of adding some more details to scripts etc, I am sure there are many roles we can address like this. > * if there are enough positive reports, repeat for CentOS5-final We are really not interested in doing / spending time on something that is not going to be there for CentOS-5/Release - so if you are getting involved, do so with the intent of seeing this through. > * release when/if centos.org is pleased with the (bugfixed) images yes, we have a QA team now! > Are you interested in such a project? I am eager for comments. You have my attention and I am happy to push this along from the inside, but if we are going to do this - lets try and cover the spectrum, not just focus on C5 ( specially taking on board what Daniel has said, C5 VM's are trivial once you have the C5 host running ) - One (of the many ) places where users are going to see really good benefit is when we can provide some alternatives to move their C3 / C4 machines into. Still interested ? - KB