Meeting minutes, 4/29

[David Huff]

On 05/03/2010 10:22 AM, David Huff wrote:
> 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.2010-04-29-21.00.html
>>>
>>> <zodbot> Minutes (text):
>>> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-29/cloud-sig.2010-04-29-21.00.txt
>>>
>>> <zodbot> Log:
>>> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-29/cloud-sig.2010-04-29-21.00.log.html
>>>
>>>
>>> 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

I have uploaded the ks file to use sda instead of xvda.

http://github.com/huff/kickstart-stuff/raw/master/fedora-ec2-min.ks

-D