[CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

[George Dunlap]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Sven Kieske <S.Kieske at mittwald.de> wrote:
> I just dived a little in virt-builder and here are my findings:
>
> 1. It's awesome!
>
> Am 18.06.2014 12:46, schrieb George Dunlap:
>> So it looks like we might want to recommend three potential paths we
>> could recommend people to explore:
>>
>> 1) For basic CentOS VMs, use a CentOS-provided cloud image, with our
>> custom metadata tweaking script.
>
> 2. Why create a custom script if maybe virt-builder can handle it?
>    I don't know if you can point virt-builder to other images than
> those on libguestfs.org, but this should be possible, include an centos
> cloud-image on libguestfs.org and just use virt-builder

You can point virt-builder to another repo; and in fact, the guys on
the libguestfs development list said that them hosting their own
template repo was meant to be a temporary measure, and that long-term
they'd like to see distros hosting their own templates.

But as to "why", did you miss that "yum install libguestfs" wants to
bring in an *additional* 178 packages, more than doubling the size of
a base installation? :-)

I think for a lot of people that will be fine; but I agree with KB,
that we should also have a really lightweight way for people to just
get VMs up and running.

 -George