<div dir="ltr">Hello again!<br><br>Thanks everyone for joining the discussion and for the advice, much appreciated.<br><br>To summarize the current situation:<br><span class="gmail-author-a-lwz80zz65zz71zz72z4z88zz81zz84z9z74zz87zz78z7w">- at the moment it's not possible to build any rpm-based image on ubuntu focal using diskimage-builder with the centos-minimal element;</span><br><div><span class="gmail-author-a-lwz80zz65zz71zz72z4z88zz81zz84z9z74zz87zz78z7w"><span class="gmail-author-a-lwz80zz65zz71zz72z4z88zz81zz84z9z74zz87zz78z7w">- so far, we've successfully built the centos8 based ipa-ramdisk using diskimage-builder in ironic-python-agent-builder on centos-8 nodeset, but using the same nodeset also for testing the image (so running devstack) would be very time expensive because of the changes involved;</span><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-author-a-lwz80zz65zz71zz72z4z88zz81zz84z9z74zz87zz78z7w"><span class="gmail-author-a-lwz80zz65zz71zz72z4z88zz81zz84z9z74zz87zz78z7w">- </span></span>during the last ironic meeting, it has been decided to switch to the centos element and give that a try using the ubuntu focal nodeset; main concern about this approach is the final size of the ipa ramdisk, tests are ongoing and it looks promising:<br><div id="gmail-magicdomid154" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-lwz80zz65zz71zz72z4z88zz81zz84z9z74zz87zz78z7w"></span><span class="gmail-author-a-lwz80zz65zz71zz72z4z88zz81zz84z9z74zz87zz78z7w gmail-url"><a href="https://review.opendev.org/757808" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://review.opendev.org/757808</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid164" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-lwz80zz65zz71zz72z4z88zz81zz84z9z74zz87zz78z7w gmail-url"><a href="https://review.opendev.org/757811" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://review.opendev.org/757811</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid167" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-lwz80zz65zz71zz72z4z88zz81zz84z9z74zz87zz78z7w gmail-url"><a href="https://review.opendev.org/757812" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://review.opendev.org/757812</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid167" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid167" class="gmail-ace-line">Thanks again!<br><br>Riccardo</div><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 6:11 PM Jeremy Stanley <<a href="mailto:fungi@yuggoth.org">fungi@yuggoth.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2020-10-08 17:57:55 +0200 (+0200), Luigi Toscano wrote:<br>
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> Uhm, maybe unattended virt-install could help there?<br>
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I expect that would be almost unworkable from within a virtual<br>
machine instance without nested virt acceleration.<br>
-- <br>
Jeremy Stanley<br>
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