Google Compute Engine Fedora Images (status update)

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 01/22/2014 06:04 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Michael Hall <mike at mjhall.org> wrote:
>> Awesome work Vaidas!
>>
>> I am keen to test the KS file, but unfortunately am moving house tomorrow
>> and will not be doing much Fedora for maybe two weeks.
>>
>> For what it's worth I have just joined Git and uploaded a first attempt at
>> defining a leaner Fedora 20 kernel:
>>
>> https://github.com/mjhall/fedora-gce-kernel
>>
>> Looking forward to getting back into this!
> 
> The Fedora kernel team would really like to maintain a single kernel
> (vmlinux) that is used across the products.  That will lead to some
> unnecessary things in all of them, but the maintenance burden is
> greatly reduced if there is a single vmlinux to triage.  We're looking
> at splitting up the kernel packaging to make the RPM itself smaller to
> help with overall image size.

That's really nice, Josh. Is this effort being tracked somewhere, I'd
like to keep myself updated on it & contribute in any little way I can,
as I'm testing nested virt w/ minimal possible kernels on L0, L1 & L2.


> 
> That being said, if you have found options that can be made modular or
> that you think are no longer needed by anything, please let us know.
> We're always willing to review config settings.
> 
> josh
>
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/kashyap