ANNOUNCE: oz 0.3.0 release
by Chris Lalancette
All,
I'm pleased to announce release 0.3.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing
automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the
user.
Release 0.3.0 is mostly a bugfix release for Oz. However, there are also
a few minor features included as well. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.2.0
and 0.3.0 are:
- Add the ability to specify the output directory for screenshots (the default
is still CWD).
- Add the ability to specify the bridge to use for installs (the default is
still the first libvirt NAT bridge on the system).
- Nicer error messages from the command-line tools when debugging is off.
- Add the ability to install Debian 5 and 6.
- Detect servers that can't possibly work for installing RedHat/Fedora OSs,
and fail the install.
- Allow installs with spaces in the name.
- Add the ability to install OpenSUSE 11.4.
More documentation on Oz is available here: http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html
If you have any questions or comments about oz, please feel free to contact
aeolus-devel(a)fedorahosted.org or me (clalance(a)redhat.com) directly.
Thanks,
--
Chris Lalancette
12 years, 6 months
Nova needs a new owner
by David Nalley
While the package hasn't yet been approved, Silas has indicated that
he doesn't have an abundance of time to maintain nova[1].
I know there are several people who are looking for nova to hit
fedora's repos. I've talked to a few people individually, and a few
have indicated they would pick it up if no one else did, but wanted to
see if anyone wanted to pick this up. I'll be happy to do the review
for this if someone wants to step up.
Thanks,
David
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649495
12 years, 6 months
Kickstart a Fedora (Anaconda) Install on EC2
by Raphaël De GIUSTI
Hi everyone,
I've been playing around with Amazon EC2, building my own Centos and Fedora
EBS backed AMI's without much trouble, following tutorials and other
practices I found on the internet.
But one thing I'd like to do, and I tried to do, is kickstarting an
installation using anaconda.
So I would have an minimal AMI that only contains a /boot directory with
vmlinuz and initrd + a /boot/grub/menu.lst file that would look like this :
default 0
timeout 3
title RH-Like-OS
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ks=http://some.server/myks.cfg
initrd /boot/initrd.img
And it would parse my ks, start anaconda and go on with the install.
The further I managed to go is to the partioning step with Centos55. If
someone's interested, there's my unanswered thread on amazon aws' forums
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=216575#216575
Same process with Fedora 14 only brings me to pvgrub reading the menu.lst,
then failing on a mmu_update.
So, here come my questions:
I was wondering what, technically speaking, prevents me from doing this.
And maybe I would understand why everyone is building the system from
scratch and why I did not find anyone who tried to do the same thing.
Note that I'm not an expert at linux kernels or boot processes, but I'm
quite curious, and I would really appreciate if you could help me understand
:-)
Thank you.
raphdg
12 years, 6 months
EC2 unspin page
by Robyn Bergeron
I created a basic (very, very, basic) page that is to serve as the
EC2... not exactly a spin... page.
I more or less took some of the stuff off the spins page template, and
deleted a few things that weren't really specific to us (artwork, etc).
It needs LOTS of love. By basic I mean, nearly completely empty. If
you have any ideas about what to fill in with, or think that other
things should be added/deleted, by all means, DO IT! :)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EC2_unspin
(If anyone has a better idea for a name than "EC2 unspin" for the
page... that would be lovely too.)
-Robyn
12 years, 6 months
Cloud SIG Meeting Minutes - 2011-03-18
by Robyn Bergeron
Thanks for coming to our new and improved (hopefully!) meeting time!
Marek pointed out today that our wiki
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG) could use some love, including
updating with more recent info on what we're working on, etc. Feel free
to pitch in. As the saying goes... it's a wiki, be bold :)
-Robyn
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-18/cloud_sig.2011...
Full Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-18/cloud_sig.2011...
==========================
#fedora-meeting: Cloud SIG
==========================
Meeting started by rbergeron at 19:00:58 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-18/cloud_sig.2011...
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll call :) (rbergeron, 19:01:20)
* Aeolus! (rbergeron, 19:05:35)
* LINK: http://aeolusproject.org/page/Packages_Missing_From_Fedora
(clalance, 19:07:40)
* packages are still available for reviewing love, see link above or
email from mmorsi to cloud(a)lists.fp.o last week (rbergeron,
19:13:03)
* EC2 (rbergeron, 19:14:06)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EC2_unspin (rbergeron,
19:14:46)
* EC2 unspin page needs a lot of love. Please help! (rbergeron,
19:15:28)
* ACTION: rbergeron to mail list with link to unspin page (rbergeron,
19:30:13)
* CloudFS (rbergeron, 19:32:59)
* Open Floor (rbergeron, 19:37:20)
* WIKI NEEDS LOVE (rbergeron, 19:38:25)
* ACTION: rbergeron to update meeting times, move cloud SIG meeting
logs to an alternate page. (rbergeron, 19:39:27)
* IDEA: update things we're working on now, perhaps create a done list
too. (rbergeron, 19:40:25)
* ACTION: jforbes to follow up with spevack on amazon account stuffz
(rbergeron, 19:52:49)
Meeting ended at 19:58:20 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* rbergeron to mail list with link to unspin page
* rbergeron to update meeting times, move cloud SIG meeting logs to an
alternate page.
* jforbes to follow up with spevack on amazon account stuffz
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jforbes
* jforbes to follow up with spevack on amazon account stuffz
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to mail list with link to unspin page
* rbergeron to update meeting times, move cloud SIG meeting logs to an
alternate page.
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* rbergeron (108)
* brianlamere (28)
* jforbes (24)
* clalance (19)
* jdarcy (8)
* mgoldmann (8)
* ksk1 (6)
* zodbot (4)
* mmorsi (4)
* jgreguske (2)
* thomasj (2)
* ke4qqq (2)
* obino (1)
12 years, 6 months
New Meeting time proposal
by Robyn Bergeron
Fridays, 12pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 1900 UTC.
This was about as good as I could do - harish and sgordon were the only
two who couldn't make it at this time.
Haven't seen a response from brianlamere, yet, though :)
Thoughts, questions, flames? If I don't hear anything over the rest of
the day, I'll <picard>make it so.</picard>
-Robyn
12 years, 6 months
ANNOUNCE: oz 0.2.0 release
by Chris Lalancette
All,
I'm pleased to announce release 0.2.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing
automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the
user.
There are quite a bit of bugfixes, features, and updates to Oz between
0.1.0 and 0.2.0. Some of them are:
- The ability to upload individual files into a guest
- The ability to specify extra repositories to install packages on the guest
from
- Updated documentation
- More control over Oz's caching behavior. You can now specify whether you
want Oz to cache the original ISO, the modified ISO, the resulting JEOS image,
or any combination of the above
- Support for installing Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 guests
- Support for installing CentOS 3, 4, and 5 guests
- Support for OpenSUSE 11.0
- Faster ISO extraction/generation
- A user-configurable timeout for installation
More documentation on Oz is available here: http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html
If you have any questions or comments about oz, please feel free to contact
aeolus-devel(a)fedorahosted.org or me (clalance(a)redhat.com) directly.
Thanks,
--
Chris Lalancette
12 years, 6 months
