[Openstack] Libguestfs??

Ilya Alekseyev ilyaalekseyev at acm.org
Thu Nov 3 12:25:27 UTC 2011


Hi

Actually libguestfs is using in GD RHEL port of OpenStack. The reason why
this patch wasn't proposed to trunk is unavailable libguestfs packages in
official repository (there is no packages in 10.10 for example).

Regards,
Ilya

3 ноября 2011 г. 12:24 пользователь Richard W.M. Jones
<rich at annexia.org>написал:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:42:50AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 20:18 -0700, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> > > I was wondering if there was a reason that openstack is not using
> > > libguestfs more frequently than not.
> > > Was there a technical reason for that, or a lack of packages in
> > > distributions (or other reasons?).
> > > Just wondering since it seems like its aiming to be a library that can
> > > unify mounting different VM files (similar to libvirt).
>
> I got a bug report from the Ubuntu packager that libguestfs didn't
> work with python3 yesterday.  I've just fixed it.  Not sure if that
> bug was connected with Openstack usage?
>
> > Using libguestfs would make perfect sense. Rich (cc-ed, libguestfs
> > author) and I discussed it a little here:
> >
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/734727
>
> Another thing would be to use Oz for building images:
>
> http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/09/oz-070-release.html
>
> (Oz uses libguestfs, but just for unpacking the install image and
> injecting files into the final guest operating system.)
>
> I'm actually going to start looking at Openstack in a lot more detail
> starting from later this week / early next week.  I want to see if it
> can help me solve the problem I have provisioning and managing dozens
> of VMs in my local network ...
>
> Rich.
>
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