Meeting minutes, 4/29

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:42:08AM -0400, David Huff wrote:
> 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
> 

Odd, I got it to work with xvda and this config file... Of note, I am using
the external kernel that is visible on EC2.  Here is my xen guest config:

name = "F1264"
uuid = "45777eb3-251b-e70a-1cb6-3ad837351441"
maxmem = 1024
memory = 1024
vcpus = 2
kernel = "/tmp/kernels/vmlinux-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64"
ramdisk = "/tmp/kernels/initramfs-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64.img"
root = "/dev/xvda1 ro"
on_poweroff = "destroy"
on_reboot = "restart"
on_crash = "restart"
vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncunused=1,keymap=en-us" ]
disk = [ "tap:aio:/home/data/xen/fedora-ec2-image-xvda.raw,xvda,w" ]
vif = [ "mac=00:16:36:6e:0e:d5,bridge=virbr0,script=vif-bridge" ]

Notice the selinux issue is now resolved.  I will upload this image to EC2
for a test run at the end of the day.

Justin