Proposed F19 Feature: First-Class Cloud Images

[Bill Nottingham]

Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> 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.)

Have the boxes and libvirt people investigated writing a minimal cloud-init
compatibile data-source?

Bill