On 11/10/16 03:21, TE Dukes wrote: > Just a question, what exactly are these images? > > I see it mentioned on the CentOS website but not a lot of info on exactly > what it is and what it does. > > How does this differ from a CentOS 7 VM installed from an ISO? Are these > just pre-made images? these are images prebuilt to work in cloud infrastructure like openshift / amazon ec2 etc. they are pre-setup with cloud-init tools and are formatted in different backing filetypes. you can use them for local VM's as well, but you will just need to do a bit more work since there is no way to login to the images without exporting the metadata externally to setup passwords and keys etc. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc