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Re: How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

 

In reddwarf for development we use Ubuntu-vm-builder. It works like a charm for creating qcow2 images. 

Sent from my digital shackles. 

On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Justin Santa Barbara <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?  The official documentation describes a manual process (boot VM with ISO), which is sub-optimal in terms of repeatability / automation / etc.  I'm hoping we can do better!
> 
> I posted how I do it on my blog, here: http://blog.justinsb.com/blog/2012/04/25/creating-an-openstack-image/
> 
> Please let me know the many ways in which I'm doing it wrong :-) 
> 
> I'm thinking we can have a discussion here, and then I can then compile the responses into a wiki page and/or a nice script...
> 
> Justin
> 
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