Semi-Official Fedora 18 downloadable cloud images

[Juerg Haefliger]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:32:04PM +0100, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>
> Hi! Thanks for your comments and interest -- it's very helpful.
>
>> 1) The default username ec2-user is too Amazon centric. I don't know
>> what the greater implications are of changing the default user but I'd
>> rather see something generic like 'fedora'.
>
> Yeah, I think there's general agreement about that, but we couldn't come to
> agreement about what it should be, so we stuck with that for this release.
>
>> 2) The console log is empty. It would be rather helpful to add
>> 'console=ttyS0' for debugging potential boot issues.
>
> Good suggestion.
>
>> 3) There's no growroot initramfs script so the root partition doesn't
>> get automatically enlarged to consume the whole disk. I'm working on
>> creating the missing packages cloud-utils and cloud-initramfs-tools. I
>> have them ready for EPEL 6 but not yet Fedora because it uses GPT.
>
> Cool. Let's put that in the plan for F19.

What's the drop dead date for getting stuff into F19? Speaking of
EPEL6, I'm not that familiar with the Fedora/EPEL build process and
was wondering if I need to create a single src RPM that can produce
both EPEL and Fedora RPMs or can I have two different src RPMs one for
Fedora and one for EPEL with different contents (and different spec
files)?


>> 4) dnsdomainname returns 'localhost' when it should return 'novalocal'
>> in our environment. Quite frankly I don't know how the domainname is
>> retrieved and need to look into it.
>
> Let me know what you find and if there are any fixes needed.
>
>> 5) The timezone is set to EST which doesn't necessarily match the
>> location of the VM. I think UTC would make more sense.
>
> I think you're right; anyone object?
>
>
>> 6) Is there a file with the image version or builddate somewhere in
>> the image? I couldn't find one but think it's a useful thing to have.
>
> There is not. I suppose we could write it to /etc/issue or to /etc/motd.
>
>> Do you think these could be addressed with a single generic image that
>> works both in EC2 and OpenStack, just like Canonical's Ubuntu images?
>
> We'd like to as much as possible, yeah.
>
>> Let me know what you think and how I can help.
>
> The above is a great start. Are you coming to FUDcon?

Unfortunatley no. That's a little bit of a short notice :-)


>> Also, would you (or the greater Fedora project in general) be
>> interested in a free account in the HP cloud? I think I should be able
>> to make that happen. Note that at the moment user's can't upload their
>> own images, they all have to be uploaded by HP (read me) until we make
>
> Yes, that would be very helpful. Thanks!

Ok, I'll start to bug people.

...Juerg


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