Best way to assemble vm images

[Joseph VLcek]

On Jul 15, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:29:56AM -0700, Krishna Raman wrote:
>> I am building these images in an automated (nightly) fashion on ec2 and
>> would prefer a method which doesn't require me to spun up a VM on a ec2
>> machine. Oz works great when I have the ability to running a VM and if it
>> is the only option at the moment then I will use it but still looking for
>> alternatives.
> 
> Ian McLeod has a system for firing up an EC2 instance and running anaconda
> in that. See:
> 
> 
> https://github.com/imcleod/anaconda-ec2.
> 
> I think this is probably the best approach for your use case. The
> alternative is to use appliance-creator, which is what we're currently
> using for the cloud images, but it's increasingly painful. Dennis Gilmore
> from Release Engineering has been patching it (and putting out new releases;
> there is no other active upstream) so it's still functional, but it's
> inherently a temperamental and fragile approach. A real-anaconda based
> solution is better, whether Oz, livemedia-creator, or this.
> 
> 
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Ian McLeod has worked on the project "Image Factory" which you may find useful.
See: http://imgfac.org/

Joe VLcek