Re: [Xen-users] filesystem image of Fedora Core for Xen? / Others VM

[Paul Lee <admin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Paul Lee wrote:
>
>
> > I can contribute a CentOS3.4 image and FC4t1 (domU?) basically a rootfs 
> > "core" install with network, openssh, yum, wget and httpd. I'll get them 
> > uploaded tomorrow.
>
> This is awesome news.
>
>
> > All I've added is a basic /etc/fstab, and the RH networking scripts to 
> > get started, but they work and I'm using them.
>
> I wonder if it would make sense to have just these as a tarball
> (or RPM?), so people could install the bulk of the RPMs using yum
> (following http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart)
> and just unpacking your configuration package on top ?
Good idea. Following that document is exactly how I created a Centos 
image except I found a `Core` install was less bothersome than a `Base` 
install and once a core install has been carried out, just add yum, ssh 
etc to make the image more useable once booted.
There were a few "gotcha's" with FC4test1 IIRC correctly. Mainly the 
passwd and  adduser commands which are fairly vital ;o) which I "think" 
was down to SELinux and security contexts. Setting permissive mode 
(/usr/sbin/setenforce 0) and/or relabling seemed to provide a fix.
I'm not sure if you can present kernel arguments in the xen config file 
at vm boot as you can with grub.
> It would make it a little bit easier to try out other Fedora
> versions, without needing to download a whole new disk image
> from your site - should save some bandwidth.
FWIW I think less techie users would prefer something graphical and the 
ability to create working domU images from install discs either on a 
CD-ROM or .iso's mounted as a loopback device. Something similar to 
UMLbuilder for RPM based distributions.
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Best regards

Paul

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