On 04/29/2010 08:26 PM, David Huff wrote:
> On 04/29/2010 06:03 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, zodbot!
>>
>> <zodbot> Minutes:
>>
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-29/cloud-sig.2010...
>>
>> <zodbot> Minutes (text):
>>
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-29/cloud-sig.2010...
>>
>> <zodbot> Log:
>>
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-29/cloud-sig.2010...
>>
>>
>> The big takeaway from my perspective: we need as much help as we can get
>> to create an F12 image that boots on RHEL 5.5 + Xen. Then we take *that*
>> image and test it on EC2. It may well fail, since it appears that
>> they're
>> running a Frankenstein RHEL 5.(0-2), but at least we'll be able to
>> isolate
>> their failures, demonstrate that we've got our stuff working, and put
>> pressure on them to fix if need be.
>>
>> <gregdek> OK, so to recap the plan:
>> <gregdek> * huff will post the latest ks and tools he's been using to
>> get
>
> Latests version of the ks file is here:
>
http://github.com/huff/kickstart-stuff/blob/master/fedora-ec2-min.ks
>
> to generate the image run the command:
> # mkdir include (this is for the kernels)
> # appliance-creator --cache /var/cache/ac/ -d -v -i ./include -n
> fedora-ec2-image -c
>
http://github.com/huff/kickstart-stuff/raw/master/fedora-ec2-min.ks
>
> I ran some tests tonight and was able to boot this image in kvm on f12
> with no selinux issues, I did have to change the fs=label, and fstabb/c
> kvm did not like xvda, but had no problem booting this image.
>
> I was not able to test in xen however. If someone could provide me with
> example xen paravirt config file (non hvm), I will try and test in xen
> tomorrow.
I was able to boot this image on a RHEL5.5 box with xen
xen-3.0.3-105.el5. Again I had to change back to sda in both grub.conf
and fstab instead of xvda (why did we change to xvda?) however I had no
selinux issues.
-D