On Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 4:47 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Over the past month or so, I've been working on producing CentOS > images with Hyperscale content and customizations to showcase the > technologies we're working on to the broader community. The goal is to > make it easier for the community to get started with the technologies > we're working on and to encourage collaboration between the SIG and > the wider community on the things we're working on. > > Today, I'm pleased to announce one of the first deliverables of that > effort: experimental live media! The SIG has produced an experimental > Hyperscale Workstation Spin that combines CentOS Stream 8 with the > Hyperscale SIG content to offer an early preview into some of the work > we're doing. > > This spin is currently available here: > > * ISO: > https://ngompa.fedorapeople.org/centos/hyperscale/CS8-HS-WORK-LIVE-LATESTDEV.iso > * SHA512 checksum: > > https://ngompa.fedorapeople.org/centos/hyperscale/CS8-HS-WORK-LIVE-LATESTDEV.iso.sha512 This is great! Congrats to the Hyperscaler SIG! josh > > There are some limitations and known issues, though: > > * UEFI boot is not supported. CBS does not support signing kernels > such that we can leverage the Secure Boot infrastructure, so UEFI is > not supported at all right now. The issue is tracked here: > https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/307 > > * The Anaconda installer icon is missing. This will be fixed with the > next release of centos-logos. Upstream issue here: > https://github.com/CentOS/centos-logos/issues/1 > > * SELinux denials with systemd-hostnamed and systemd-oomd. This is > being investigated, and fixes will become available in a future > systemd update provided by the Hyperscale SIG. > > * SELinux denials with sssd and useradd. This happens with stock > CentOS Stream 8, and is not related to anything we're doing. > > * All non-English locales aren't showing up in Anaconda despite all > locales being installed. This is being actively investigated and will > hopefully be resolved in a future release. > > * "dnf upgrade" is broken due to package conflicts with the DNF stack. > This is because our custom version of the RPM+DNF stack has not been > refreshed to the latest version pushed into CentOS Stream 8. This is > ongoing and should be resolved soon. > > * VDO is broken. This is a consequence of VDO being an out-of-tree > kernel module shipped by Red Hat for RHEL kernels only. The Hyperscale > SIG is building its kernels based on the ARK tree that's used by > Fedora, and thus lacks support for VDO. > > If you find any other issues, we would definitely love to hear about > them! We have a dedicated issue tracker for Hyperscale spins where we > would appreciate bugs to be reported: > https://pagure.io/centos-sig-hyperscale/spin-bugs > > The Hyperscale Workstation spin is built on the GNOME desktop. It is > my intent to also offer a KDE Plasma flavor once it becomes reasonably > possible. This is blocked on KDE Plasma getting rebuilt in EPEL-Next > for the updated Qt5 in CentOS Stream 8. Both desktops are capable of > leveraging the technologies being developed by the Hyperscale SIG and > we intend to use this to showcase that. > > We hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making this! > > Thanks and best regards, > Neal (on behalf of the CentOS Hyperscale SIG) > > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210628/6fd04a95/attachment-0002.html>