Libguestfs - Feb 2014 - Re: Scientific Linux template update?

Hello

Could the Scientific Linux template for virt-builder be updated to the
recent 6.5 release?

Thanks,
Adam

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:24:38PM +0000, Adam Huffman
wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Could the Scientific Linux template for virt-builder be updated to the
> recent 6.5 release?
I'll try and get around to this tomorrow.

You might also be interested in the long term plan.  We don't plan to
host cloud images ourselves if we can avoid it.  We would like to use
cloud images published by the distros.

In virt-builder 1.26, the single source index[0] will be replaced by
an /etc/virt-builder.d/ directory containing configuration files
pointing to multiple sources.

Some of these will still be our own hosted distros.  Over time I hope
that more and more will point directly to metadata[1] and cloud images
hosted by distros themselves.  (Existing cloud images -- we're not
asking anyone to make special virt-builder images, unless they deeply
want to.  Virt-builder upstream can consume cloud images in many
different formats already.)

Rich.

[0] http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/index.asc

[1] By "metadata" I mean:

http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html#creating-and-signing-the-index-file

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:24:38PM +0000, Adam Huffman
wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Could the Scientific Linux template for virt-builder be updated to the
> recent 6.5 release?
This is uploading now.  Should be ready in an hour or two.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines.  Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages.  http://libguestfs.org

Many thanks.

I agree that re-using distro-provided images makes sense. I should
point that I don't speak for SL, though I'm happy to suggest this. As
you can imagine there's quite a lot of discussion in the SL community
at the moment, given recent announcements...

Best Wishes,
Adam

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:24:38PM +0000, Adam Huffman wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Could the Scientific Linux template for virt-builder be updated to the
>> recent 6.5 release?
>
> This is uploading now.  Should be ready in an hour or two.
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines.  Supports shell scripting,
> bindings from many languages.  http://libguestfs.org