[Openstack] How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?

Razique Mahroua razique.mahroua at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 13:21:52 UTC 2012


Hey Lorin,
maybe the starter guide ? since it already contains pretty much everything to discover OPS ?

Nuage & Co - Razique Mahroua 
razique.mahroua at gmail.com



Le 26 avr. 2012 à 15:10, Lorin Hochstein a écrit :

> Broader question: what's the best place to capture this information? 
> 
> Right now, there's a chapter in the OpenStack Compute Admin Guide about images, but I'm tempted to break out a new document dedicated to creating and obtaining appropriate images that are compatible with OpenStack (or, more specifically, with OpenStack-supported hypervisors), and have that be accessible on docs.openstack.org. We could use the wiki, but I'm afraid most users wouldn't find it there, and this is a pretty critical issue for new users.
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> Unless 
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> Take care,
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> Lorin
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> Lorin Hochstein
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> Nimbis Services, Inc.
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> On Apr 26, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Michael Basnight wrote:
> 
>> In reddwarf for development we use Ubuntu-vm-builder. It works like a charm for creating qcow2 images. 
>> 
>> Sent from my digital shackles. 
>> 
>> On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Justin Santa Barbara <justin at fathomdb.com> wrote:
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>>> How does everyone build OpenStack disk images?  The official documentation describes a manual process (boot VM with ISO), which is sub-optimal in terms of repeatability / automation / etc.  I'm hoping we can do better!
>>> 
>>> I posted how I do it on my blog, here: http://blog.justinsb.com/blog/2012/04/25/creating-an-openstack-image/
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>>> Please let me know the many ways in which I'm doing it wrong :-) 
>>> 
>>> I'm thinking we can have a discussion here, and then I can then compile the responses into a wiki page and/or a nice script...
>>> 
>>> Justin
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