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[Guilhem LETTRON <guilhem.lettron@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, and I also experiment another way :
using "virt-install" with preseeding.
The main problem is to generate a good preseed.cfg with full options and
with an easy configurable hostname.
But this solution has the advantage to be fully Ubuntu compliant for future
(using the debian installer).

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


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Guilhem LETTRON <guilhem.lettron@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> 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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