Hello Karanbir Singh, On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:38:18PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hi, > > CentOS-6.4 i386 and x86_64 images targetting OpenStack are now available > for testing at http://dev.centos.org/centos/hvm/ Images are available > for KVM, Hyper-V, VMware, Xen and any other HVM hypervisor. Although, > the 6.x kernel has the pv support enabled, so should work fine under > paravirt Xen as well. > > Images are published as raw, qcow2 qcow2compressed and vpc ( vhd ) for > both i386 and x86_64 CentOS-6.4 The images represent media versions, and > have not had an update run against them. Its highly recommended that in > testing, please check this version *then* do a yum update and repeat > tests to ensure that there is no test result change in the 6.4+updates > tree's. > > Keeping in line with the general CentOS Cloud strategy, ie to help > people migrate or investigate cloud instances, we expect the images to > represent as close as possible to a real machine CentOS install ( ie. no > cloud specific user, people use root to login, selinux is enabled ). > With some exceptions like isdn support is removed, as is cups and > bluetooth since those things make little sense on a cloud instance ( > nothing stopping the users from installing them later if they need to ). Are there also CentOS-6.5 images available? Or has the repository moved to a more official CentOS location and has newer releases available? > The overall aim is to be ready for inclusion of Cloud image release in > sync with iso and distro release for next-version ( 6.5 most likely ). Might not have happened. I think official CentOS cloud images are really important and should be shared broadly. best regards from Germany, Florian La Roche