[openstack-dev] [TripleO] [diskimage-builder] LVM in diskimage-builder

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed May 18 00:04:43 UTC 2016


On 18 May 2016 at 07:32, Andre Florath <andre at florath.net> wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> AFAIK the diskimage-builder started as a testing tool, but it looks
> that it evolves more and more into a general propose tool for creating
> docker and VM disk images.

We started as a fast, production, targeted image builder suitable for
cloud images - the other existing tools were either overly hard to
customise for different use cases, or too slow.
....
>   Problem: I have no idea how to boot from a pure LVM image.

Install grub2 in the boot block, it can deal with some layout metadata.

-Rob



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