Google Compute Engine Fedora Images (status update)

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Mostly on the kernel list and on this list.  At the moment, I'm
waiting for Matt and Sam to tell me what "smaller" should actually
included.

josh