livemedia-creator and the fedora build system [was Re: appliance-creator: how can I ...]

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 05:35:16PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:12:20AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > We could maybe engineer an alternate build process using the internal cloud,
> > > adapting livecd creator to run on a cloud instance rather than with
> > > virt locally. Or something. Any ideas?
> > I'd strongly recommend oz-install ...
> >   https://github.com/clalancette/oz
> > Depending on what exactly this appliance is going to be used for, then
> > febootstrap & a supermin appliance might be an option for you too.
> 
> Doesn't Oz have the same issue with needing to launch a virtual machine? I
> don't think we want to run the install under QEMU.

It does, but this isn't a huge problem because installation is so
entirely I/O-bound.

Or do you mean it's a problem to run qemu at all?  qemu certainly runs
inside Koji just fine -- we run that all the time.

febootstrap works off the RPMs directly, but has other limitations.

Rich.

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