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[Guilhem LETTRON <guilhem.lettron@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You can also add another project : https://github.com/clalancette/oz

I heard many good things about it at FOSDEM. Last version seems to work
with latest Ubuntu.
I created a launchpad project : https://launchpad.net/oz
and ppas :
https://launchpad.net/~oz-packagers/+archive/daily
https://launchpad.net/~oz-packagers/+archive/stable


I don't know what is the best way now.
I do many work on vmbuilder ("Fixes for oneiric"), but my work may not be
enough clean (no 1 commit by feature) to be merged now and it's a big
architecture change.
vmbuilder seems to have a very limited community, maybe a way it to help a
project like oz to be more Ubuntu friendly and switch to it.

Best Regards.

Guilhem LETTRON
Ingénieur - Architecte système
Youscribe - www.youscribe.com


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Remus Barbatei <remustata@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I have started working with vmbuilder and I have a few questions/issues:
> I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS precise - 32bit
>
> - the version I am working it is found here:
> https://bitbucket.org/burcin/vmbuilder
> This version contains the latest changes/updates for ubuntu, changes that
> are not yet submitted here.
>
> - If I run the simple command $ vmbuilder kvm ubuntu it works but when I
> try to run it with custom arguments I have some problems:
>
> 1- If I use a custom "disk.partition" file to describe my partitions with
> the "--part disk.partition"  argument it does not work:
>
> failed every time ,at a certain point:
>
> 2012-11-26 00:50:29,556 INFO    : Creating file systems
> 2012-11-26 00:50:29,561 INFO    : mke2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
> 2012-11-26 00:50:32,441 INFO    : mkswap: /dev/mapper/loop4p2: warning:
> don't erase bootbits sectors
> 2012-11-26 00:50:32,441 INFO    :        on whole disk. Use -f to force.
>
> ,when trying to create my custom disks and sizes as defined
>
> root 5000
> /home 10000
> swap 1024
>
> it just got stuck and the whole system would not listen to my commands -
> not even the browsers functioned and I had to restart my pc several times
> before realizing that that is just the problem: it somehow gets stuck when
> trying to create custom partitions
>
> 2- If I use the "--hostname vm_name" argument it works but I cannot
> properly run it. The problem and possible solutions are presented here:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/364895/virsh-vm-console-does-not-show-any-output
>
> 3- Furthermore is there any intention of naming the .qcow2 files the same
> as the --hostname argument in order to easily manage it and create a random
> tmp##### name only when this argument is not provided ?
>
> 4- Also, there are different development efforts which were not merged in
> the main repository:
>
> Centos support:
> https://github.com/simonjj/vmbuilder-centos-support
>
> Debian support:
> http://wiki.debian.org/VMBuilder
>
> repository is here:
> git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-escience/vmbuilder.git
>
> Fixes for oneiric
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~guilhem-fr/vmbuilder/oneiric-support/+merge/89858
>
> Are you planning to merge any of these in the near future? Has anybody
> worked with these versions ?
>
> 5- Some developers are also working on a bash version of vmbuilder:
> https://github.com/hansode/vmbuilder
> This has support for redhat based distributions, centos, fedora,rhel, etc.
> It should be possible to convert this scripts into Python vmbuilder. code.
>
> Is any of you doing this? or can anybody help me with this?
>
> I know there are a lot of questions they are all important but the ones
> with the highest priority for me are 1,2,4,5 - can anybody help me with
> this? Any kind of response is highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
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