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On 04/26/2012 04:42 PM, Scott Moser wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Jay Pipes wrote:
>> On 04/26/2012 04:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> If you have a KVM enabled machine, then 'Oz' has the ability to create
>>> JeOS images for all the common distros you'll find. It is a very simple
>>> command line tool that just focuses on image building&   image customization
>>> (adding more packages to an existing JeOS image).
>>>
>>>    http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html
>>
>> Interesting, I'll check it out.
>>
>>> Yes, it is on the Aeolus project website, but it has no external
>>> dependancies on the rest of Aeolus - it just wants kvm, libvirt&   a
>>> few commonly available python modules. I've often thought that it
>>> would be desirable to have Oz integrated into OpenStack to provide an
>>> native image building capability. Given their common Python heritage
>>> I think it would work quite well.
>>
>> Would be interesting to get that integrated into Glance somehow...
>
> really?

As an extension :) Would be cool to have something that constructs 
images from some list of inputs and packages. But it would be an 
extension, not core functionality to Glance...

Best,
-jay