Proposed F19 Feature: First-Class Cloud Images

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:19:16AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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?

I don't recall us ever talking about it, but it could be something to
investigate.

Daniel
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