[CentOS-devel] how minimal is a minimal too minimal

Wed Mar 19 20:25:55 UTC 2014
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 03/19/2014 07:10 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> How would a 'micro' installation suggest installing software so
> that the image does something useful without yum?

libguestfs does quite a bit of the post-image-instantiation work
already, eg: running a ceph cluster inside a VM using micro instances
to represent nodes would be fairly simple.

In the xen images, we already do guestfs injection of keys/passphrases
etc.

- KB

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