Fedora 19 beta test candidate images

[Juerg Haefliger]

Hi Matt,

> Take a look at
>
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Beta-RC4/Images/
>
> based on the Fedora Go/No-Go meeting, this is likely to be the Beta.

Thanks for this! I took it for a spin in OpenStack and here are my observations:

1) The hostname is not set correctly. See my updates to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964006. Looks to me like a
systemd/selinux issue.

2) The root partition is not resized. There's two problems:
    a) cloud.cfg doesn't list the growpart module ->
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=966888
    b) cloud-init can't find a resizer, since F19 parted doesn't seem
to support online partition resizing (option 'resizepart' is not
available). The work-around for this is to install cloud-utils.

3) Can we please make the default user more provider agnostic? Pretty
please?? I propose to follow Debian and Ubuntu and use 'fedora' as the
default user.

4) The kickstart file is stored in /root. That should probably be purged.

5) The console log is empty. Can we add 'console=ttyS0' to the kernel
commandline?

6) cloud-init doesn't display the networking info correctly ->
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949832


...Juerg


> We have a couple of known issues in this beta release, which will probably
> cause us to respin some intermediate updated images between beta and final.
>
>
> 1. Cloud init hostname module broken
>
>   - This causes an about-one-minute delay on boot, during which ec2-user is
>     not created.
>
>   Bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964006
>
>
> 2. Growroot support not working right
>
>   - possibly related to the above? Definitely related to recent
>     conversation.
>
>   - Currently still producing 10GB images until this is resolved
>
>   No bug yet but will file something soon.
>
>
> 3. qcow2 image is uncompressed
>
>   - this is due to the current release engineering workflow
>
>   - will be fixed one way or another for general release
>
>
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