Re: [Publicity] Blog post about Fedora Xen live CD

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 02:29:40PM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On lun, 2014-06-09 at 05:19 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Jun 8, 2014 6:42 PM, Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix
> 
> > > Just to let the list know, I've got the Fedora Xen LiveCD ready and 
> > > working. It's nothing super-hyper-cool, from a technical standpoint, but 
> > > I was thinking, after having announced it to the relevant Fedora mailing 
> > > lists, to write a blog post about it (where to find it, how to customize 
> > > and regenerate it, etc.)
> > 
> > Yes! I would very much enjoy that and it would also help in tracking some 
> > bugs down (I presume the installer initrd gets created dynamically)?
> > 
> Well, yes and no. I guess it depends on what you mean by 'installer
> initrd'. So, as far as I've understood that kickstart+livecd-creator
> thing, what happens is it creates a chroot where a set of specific RPM
> packages are installed, some modification to the configuration ins done,
> and then it compresses everything into a squashfs image and build up the
> liveCD structure (to make it bootable, etc).
> 
> So, yes, indeed what gets into the live image is dynamically generated.
> 
> Right now (as you probably have seen on the e-mail I sent to fedora-xen
> and xen-users), the hypervisor and dom0 kernel image being booted are
> just the same one that you find in F20 (although, the most updated copy
> of it, e.g., taking updates-testing and virt-preview into account).
> 
> If you want something different, like a custom build of Xen (or Linux)
> of your own, well, that is probably doable, but I'm not there yet,
> mostly because I'm not sure about a few 'design' aspects.

That is easily solved - I build the RPMs outside of this chroot
and point the kickstart to use my repo.

And even better - koji exists which makes it even easier to build the
RPMs.
> 
> If that is the case, I think we can continue this conversation on the
> tech lists and try to move forward. :-)
> 
> As per the blog post, I'll cut it out, mostly basing on the content that
> it's in the email I was talking about above, and it will be ready for
> review by tomorrow EOB.
> 
> Regards,
> Dario
> 
> -- 
> <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
> 



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