Cloud SIG meeting minutes - 2010/07/08

[Robyn Bergeron]

<Prof. Farnsworth>Good news everyone!*</Prof. Farnsworth> The kernel
update has been pushed to stable and should be available tomorrow. We
should now be able to plow ahead with testing and ks file stuff.
jforbes is also submitting into FeatureList this week. Hooray,
Progress!

Please see the logs for more information. If you have any updates and
weren't able to make the meeting, please update us on the list!

Thanks to all who came!

-Robyn

*apologies to those not familiar with Futurama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1cap6yETA



Meeting Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-07-08/fedora-meeting...
Full Logs:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-07-08/fedora-meeting...

==========================
#fedora-meeting: Cloud SIG
==========================


Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:22 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-07-08/fedora-meeting...

Meeting summary
---------------
* Agenda  (rbergeron, 21:02:06)
  * LINK:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG#Upcoming_meeting_agenda
    (rbergeron, 21:02:11)
  * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Publishing_image_to_EC2
    (rbergeron, 21:03:29)
  * LINK:
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2010-July/000223.html
    (rbergeron, 21:05:45)
  * So we will need the new version of eucatools, but time is not so
    critical on that as we can manually work aroudn it  (rbergeron,
    21:07:35)
  * ACTION: jforbes to respond to gholms mailing list email on eucatools
    stuff.  (rbergeron, 21:09:09)
  * jforbes in the middle of creating FeatureList submission, woot.
    (rbergeron, 21:10:23)
  * ACTION: jforbes to continue trying to get ahold of huff on .ks
    stuff.  (rbergeron, 21:12:44)
  * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG#To-Do_List
    (rbergeron, 21:14:05)
  * kernel news... kernel is in updates-testing So test and give it
    karma!  (rbergeron, 21:15:02)
  * ACTION: rbergeron to talk to spevack about location of the huff
    (rbergeron, 21:17:18)
  * update has been pushed to stable - so should be available tomorrow
    (rbergeron, 21:19:18)
  * ACTION: jforbes to send patched .ks file to the list with testing
    instructions  (rbergeron, 21:22:15)
  * ACTION: rbergeron to put more of this to-do stuff in wiki to-do
    list, mail to mailing list.  (rbergeron, 21:24:14)

* Open Floor  (rbergeron, 21:45:24)
  * mirrors: we're not there yet, but soon as we have an image, and a
    few running instances, we want to set up a mirror in each
    availability zone  (rbergeron, 21:46:27)
  * ACTION: rbergeron to ping spevack about getting account info to
    create mirrors  (rbergeron, 21:47:04)
  * ACTION: said account info for mdomsch :)  (rbergeron, 21:47:13)
  * no rush; we'll want to set them up using the fedora images created
    (rbergeron, 21:47:43)
  * or a RHEL-like image  (rbergeron, 21:47:49)
  * also need info on disk space for mirroring images; how to do it, and
    where  (rbergeron, 21:49:15)
  * LINK: http://rix.si/files/greg-plow.png   (rbergeron, 21:55:31)

Meeting ended at 21:55:54 UTC.

Action Items
------------
* jforbes to respond to gholms mailing list email on eucatools stuff.
* jforbes to continue trying to get ahold of huff on .ks stuff.
* rbergeron to talk to spevack about location of the huff
* jforbes to send patched .ks file to the list with testing instructions
* rbergeron to put more of this to-do stuff in wiki to-do list, mail to
  mailing list.
* rbergeron to ping spevack about getting account info to create mirrors
* said account info for mdomsch :)

[Marek Goldmann]

Indeed, great news!

I have a few questions about kernels. Are we targeting F13 AND F12 or just F13? For what
exact changes in kernel we're waiting for? I see two kernels (one for F12 one for F13)
were pushed yesterday to stable:

	https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/kernel?_csrf_token=ea15851...

Which is the ONE you're talking about? :)

The next question is about EC2 AKI with pvgrub – how to use that? Which ARI I should
specify to run the AMI? Do I need to make some changes to Fedora's kernel (mkinitrd,
dracut?)?

Sorry for all those questions, I wasn't able to attend the last few meetings... :( Try
to do it next week!

Go go go, Fedora!

--Marek

On 2010-07-09, at 00:03, Robyn Bergeron wrote:

>  <Prof. Farnsworth>Good news everyone!*</Prof. Farnsworth>
> The kernel
>  update has been pushed to stable and should be available tomorrow. We
>  should now be able to plow ahead with testing and ks file stuff.
>  jforbes is also submitting into FeatureList this week. Hooray,
>  Progress!
>  
>  Please see the logs for more information. If you have any updates and
>  weren't able to make the meeting, please update us on the list!
>  
>  Thanks to all who came!
>  
>  -Robyn
>  
>  *apologies to those not familiar with Futurama.
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1cap6yETA
>  
>  
>  
>  Meeting Minutes:
>
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-07-08/fedora-meeting...
>  Full Logs:
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-07-08/fedora-meeting...
>  
>  ==========================
>  #fedora-meeting: Cloud SIG
>  ==========================
>  
>  
>  Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:22 UTC. The full logs are
>  available at
>
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-07-08/fedora-meeting...
>  
>  Meeting summary
>  ---------------
>  * Agenda  (rbergeron, 21:02:06)
>   * LINK:
>     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG#Upcoming_meeting_agenda
>     (rbergeron, 21:02:11)
>   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Publishing_image_to_EC2
>     (rbergeron, 21:03:29)
>   * LINK:
>     http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2010-July/000223.html
>     (rbergeron, 21:05:45)
>   * So we will need the new version of eucatools, but time is not so
>     critical on that as we can manually work aroudn it  (rbergeron,
>     21:07:35)
>   * ACTION: jforbes to respond to gholms mailing list email on eucatools
>     stuff.  (rbergeron, 21:09:09)
>   * jforbes in the middle of creating FeatureList submission, woot.
>     (rbergeron, 21:10:23)
>   * ACTION: jforbes to continue trying to get ahold of huff on .ks
>     stuff.  (rbergeron, 21:12:44)
>   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG#To-Do_List
>     (rbergeron, 21:14:05)
>   * kernel news... kernel is in updates-testing So test and give it
>     karma!  (rbergeron, 21:15:02)
>   * ACTION: rbergeron to talk to spevack about location of the huff
>     (rbergeron, 21:17:18)
>   * update has been pushed to stable - so should be available tomorrow
>     (rbergeron, 21:19:18)
>   * ACTION: jforbes to send patched .ks file to the list with testing
>     instructions  (rbergeron, 21:22:15)
>   * ACTION: rbergeron to put more of this to-do stuff in wiki to-do
>     list, mail to mailing list.  (rbergeron, 21:24:14)
>  
>  * Open Floor  (rbergeron, 21:45:24)
>   * mirrors: we're not there yet, but soon as we have an image, and a
>     few running instances, we want to set up a mirror in each
>     availability zone  (rbergeron, 21:46:27)
>   * ACTION: rbergeron to ping spevack about getting account info to
>     create mirrors  (rbergeron, 21:47:04)
>   * ACTION: said account info for mdomsch :)  (rbergeron, 21:47:13)
>   * no rush; we'll want to set them up using the fedora images created
>     (rbergeron, 21:47:43)
>   * or a RHEL-like image  (rbergeron, 21:47:49)
>   * also need info on disk space for mirroring images; how to do it, and
>     where  (rbergeron, 21:49:15)
>   * LINK: http://rix.si/files/greg-plow.png   (rbergeron, 21:55:31)
>  
>  Meeting ended at 21:55:54 UTC.
>  
>  Action Items
>  ------------
>  * jforbes to respond to gholms mailing list email on eucatools stuff.
>  * jforbes to continue trying to get ahold of huff on .ks stuff.
>  * rbergeron to talk to spevack about location of the huff
>  * jforbes to send patched .ks file to the list with testing instructions
>  * rbergeron to put more of this to-do stuff in wiki to-do list, mail to
>   mailing list.
>  * rbergeron to ping spevack about getting account info to create mirrors
>  * said account info for mdomsch :)
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[David Huff]

All, sorry I missed the meeting yesterday. I have taken on a new roll 
within RH and will not have as much time to devote to this effort as in 
the past.  I will still try to help out when possible.

For the KS file, there should not be much change from the F12 ks file 
needed. I will try to do a quick test today and post a sample F13 ks file.

On 07/09/2010 03:26 AM, Marek Goldmann wrote:
>  The next question is about EC2 AKI with pvgrub – how to use that?
> Which ARI I should specify to run the AMI? Do I need to make some changes to Fedora's
> kernel (mkinitrd, dracut?)? 
To run the PV-grub kernel you do not need ARI just the PV-grub AKI, it 
pulls the ramdisk from the AMI.

For pv-grub to work work properly I had to rebuild the ramdisk on the 
image (in the post section of the ks file) and preload the xen dirvers 
see below for an example I used in RHEL....

# mkinitrd -f -v --allow-missing \
     --builtin uhci-hcd \
     --builtin ohci-hcd \
     --builtin ehci-hcd \
     --preload xennet \
     --preload xenblk \
     --preload dm-mod \
     --preload dm-mirror \
     --preload dm-mod \
     --preload dm-crypt \
     --preload linear \
     --preload dm-snapshot \
     --preload raid1 \
     --preload raid0 \
     --preload raid10 \
     --preload raid456 \
     --force-lvm-probe \
     /boot/initrd-${kver}.img \
     $kver

I also made sure grub.conf was copied to menu.lst (not sure if required 
or not but I think pv-grub is hard coded to look for menu.lst) and made 
sure it looked similar to this.....

"
default=0
timeout=0

title RHEL
     root (hd0)
     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5xen root=/dev/sda1
     initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.el5xen.img
"

Hope this helps....

-David