Proposed F19 Feature: First-Class Cloud Images

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:38:13PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > == Detailed description ==
> >     * New images that can be used in other cloud deployments (such as 
> > OpenStack, CloudStack, or Eucalyptus) will be produced. They will be in a 
> > qcow2 format and lack the EC2-specific customization. Images for this feature 
> > would ideally work for all cloud deployments and there will be i686 and x86_64 
> > versions of both image types. In total and "image drop" will have 4 images: 2 
> > arches for 2 different types (EC2, not-EC2).
> Will these images also be usable directly as virt image templates in local
> virtualization tools such as virt-manager & Boxes?

Yes. They have cloud-init enabled, which will look for a metadata service
and (probably) not find one and then eventually time out and get you to a
login prompt. To avoid that, you can boot with "ds=nocloud'

(Apparently there's a RHEVm and vSphere datasource too but I haven't tested
that.)

Other than that, they're perfectly reasonable base images for anything. 




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