Re: [Xen-users] Automate installation of VM images

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 05:17:50PM -0500, Thawan Kooburat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to know if there is a tool that automate the installation of
> various Linux distributions into VM images. My goal is to be able to
> create VM on-demand for each software building and testing job.
> 
> This does not have to be specific to Xen because I should be able to
> use qemu-img to covert between various image types.
> 
> I found that there are 2 main approaches of  this kind of work.
> 1. Use Kickstart or Preseeding to automate OS installation in VM.
> 2. Use yum or debootstrap to install OS into mounted VM image.
> However, this method requires some work to make image bootable and run
> properly.
> 
> >From what I found, the second approach might be a lot faster in terms
> of image creation time and Xen-tools seems to fall into this category
> as well. However, current list of supported distribution of Xen-tools
> is quite limited (Only CentOS4 for RPM-based)
> 
> Is there other alternatives?
> 

Yeah.. there is.
Install 'template' VM once, and then just clone it
when you need new instances.

-- Pasi


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