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The oz tool that Daniel mentions makes image creation and customization pretty simple. I've created some templates for building images at
<a href="http://github.com/rackerjoe/oz-image-build">github.com/rackerjoe/oz-image-build</a> if anyone is interested.
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<div>On Apr 26, 2012, at 3:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:</div>
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<div>On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 06:14:22PM -0700, Justin Santa Barbara wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">How does everyone build OpenStack disk images? The official documentation<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">describes a manual process (boot VM with ISO), which is sub-optimal in<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">terms of repeatability / automation / etc. I'm hoping we can do better!<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I posted how I do it on my blog, here:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://blog.justinsb.com/blog/2012/04/25/creating-an-openstack-image/">http://blog.justinsb.com/blog/2012/04/25/creating-an-openstack-image/</a><br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Please let me know the many ways in which I'm doing it wrong :-)<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I'm thinking we can have a discussion here, and then I can then compile the<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">responses into a wiki page and/or a nice script...<br>
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If you have a KVM enabled machine, then 'Oz' has the ability to create<br>
JeOS images for all the common distros you'll find. It is a very simple<br>
command line tool that just focuses on image building & image customization<br>
(adding more packages to an existing JeOS image).<br>
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<a href="http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html">http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html</a><br>
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Yes, it is on the Aeolus project website, but it has no external<br>
dependancies on the rest of Aeolus - it just wants kvm, libvirt & a<br>
few commonly available python modules. I've often thought that it<br>
would be desirable to have Oz integrated into OpenStack to provide an<br>
native image building capability. Given their common Python heritage<br>
I think it would work quite well.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Daniel<br>
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