Fedora cloud qcow2 images

[Vitaly Kuznetsov]

Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> writes:

> On 12/09/2014 11:20 AM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> It strikes me as odd that the Fedora 21 cloud images are hidden behind
>> the "Are you an OpenStack user?" link on
>> https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/download/.  It seems as if libvirt
>> users would also like to use the qcow2 images (100% of my sample
>> audience -- consisting of me -- agrees with that statement).
>>
>> Someone looking for qcow2 images for use outside of openstack may be
>> stymied by the current design.
>
> The images expect cloud-init to set the root password, right? So
> unless it's documented how to work around that, we shouldn't advertise
> for anything but a cloud environment.

Cloud-init supports different data sources
(http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/datasources.html),
e.g. one can provide a special ISO. Cloud environment is really optional
here.

-- 
  Vitaly