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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/26/2012 04:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> If you have a KVM enabled machine, then 'Oz' has the ability to create
> JeOS images for all the common distros you'll find. It is a very simple
> command line tool that just focuses on image building&  image customization
> (adding more packages to an existing JeOS image).
>
>   http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html

Interesting, I'll check it out.

> Yes, it is on the Aeolus project website, but it has no external
> dependancies on the rest of Aeolus - it just wants kvm, libvirt&  a
> few commonly available python modules. I've often thought that it
> would be desirable to have Oz integrated into OpenStack to provide an
> native image building capability. Given their common Python heritage
> I think it would work quite well.

Would be interesting to get that integrated into Glance somehow...

Best,
-jay