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Re: How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

 

On 04/26/2012 04:42 PM, Scott Moser wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Jay Pipes wrote:
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...

really?

As an extension :) Would be cool to have something that constructs images from some list of inputs and packages. But it would be an extension, not core functionality to Glance...

Best,
-jay


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