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Kickstart a Fedora (Anaconda) Install on EC2
by Raphaël De GIUSTI 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hi everyone, I've been playing around with Amazon EC2, building my own Centos and Fedora EBS backed AMI's without much trouble, following tutorials and other practices I found on the internet. But one thing I'd like to do, and I tried to do, is kickstarting an installation using anaconda. So I would have an minimal AMI that only contains a /boot directory with vmlinuz and initrd + a /boot/grub/menu.lst file that would look like this : default 0 timeout 3 title RH-Like-OS root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz ks=http://some.server/myks.cfg initrd /boot/initrd.img And it would parse my ks, start anaconda and go on with the install. The further I managed to go is to the partioning step with Centos55. If someone's interested, there's my unanswered thread on amazon aws' forums https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=216575#216575 Same process with Fedora 14 only brings me to pvgrub reading the menu.lst, then failing on a mmu_update. So, here come my questions: I was wondering what, technically speaking, prevents me from doing this. And maybe I would understand why everyone is building the system from scratch and why I did not find anyone who tried to do the same thing. Note that I'm not an expert at linux kernels or boot processes, but I'm quite curious, and I would really appreciate if you could help me understand :-) Thank you. raphdg

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Cloud SIG Meeting Reminder: 2011/02/17, 2100 UTC, in #fedora-meeting
by Robyn Bergeron 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Meeting Details: Thursday, 2011/02/17 @2100 UTC (In NA - East coast, 4pm; West coast, 1pm.) Meeting channel: #fedora-meeting, irc.freenode.net Other details are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG. See you there! -Robyn

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CfP 6th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC'11)
by VHPC2011 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Apologies if you received multiple copies of this message. ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 6th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing VHPC'11 as part of Euro-Par 2011, Bordeaux, France ================================================================= Date: August 30, 2011 Euro-Par 2011: http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/ Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts: May 2, 2011 Full Paper: June 13, 2011 Scope: Virtualization has become a common abstraction layer in modern data centers, enabling resource owners to manage complex infrastructure independently of their applications. Conjointly virtualization is becoming a driving technology for a manifold of industry grade IT services. The cloud concept includes the notion of a separation between resource owners and users, adding services such as hosted application frameworks and queuing. Utilizing the same infrastructure, clouds carry significant potential for use in high-performance scientific computing. The ability of clouds to provide for requests and releases of vast computing resource dynamically and close to the marginal cost of providing the services is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Distributed computing concepts that leverage federated resource access are popular within the grid community, but have not seen previously desired deployed levels so far. Also, many of the scientific datacenters have not adopted virtualization or cloud concepts yet. This workshop aims to bring together industrial providers with the scientific community in order to foster discussion, collaboration and mutual exchange of knowledge and experience. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. It concludes with a 30 min panel discussion by presenters. TOPICS Topics include, but are not limited to, the following subjects: - Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments - VM-based cloud performance modeling - Workload characterizations for VM-based environments - Software as a Service (SaaS) - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security - Cloud, cluster and grid filesystems - QoS and and service levels - Cross-layer VM optimizations - Virtualized I/O and storage - Virtualization and HPC architectures including NUMA - System and process/bytecode VM convergence - Paravirtualized driver development - Research and education use cases - VM cloud, cluster distribution algorithms - MPI on virtual machines and clouds - Cloud frameworks and API sets - Checkpointing of large compute jobs - Cloud load balancing - Accelerator virtualization - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - Hardware support for virtualization - High-performance network virtualization - Auto-tuning of VMM and VM parameters - High-speed interconnects - Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing - VMMs/Hypervisors - Cloud use cases including optimizations - Performance modeling - Fault tolerant VM environments - VMM performance tuning on various load types - Cloud provisioning - Virtual machine monitor platforms - Pass-through VM device access - Management, deployment of VM-based environments PAPER SUBMISSION Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - the format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF, accepted papers will be requested to provided source files. Format Guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Submission Link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=10155 CHAIR Michael Alexander (chair), IBM, Austria Gianluigi Zanetti (co-chair), CRS4, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paolo Anedda, CRS4, Italy Volker Buege, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Giovanni Busonera, CRS4, Italy Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli, Italy Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy William Gardner, University of Guelph, Canada Werner Fischer, Thomas-Krenn AG, Germany Wolfgang Gentzsch, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany Marcus Hardt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland Shantenu Sjha, Louisiana State University, USA Xuxian Jiang, NC State, USA Kenji Kaneda, Google, USA Simone Leo, CRS4, Italy Ignancio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, Naoya Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Anastassios Nanos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Jose Renato Santos, HP Labs, USA Deepak Singh, Amazon Webservices, USA Boria Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, China DURATION: Workshop Duration is one day. GENERAL INFORMATION The workshop will be held as part of Euro-Par 2011, organized by INRIA, CNRS and the University of Bordeaux I, II, France. Euro-Par 2011: http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/

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Cloud SIG meeting minutes - 2011-02-10
by Robyn Bergeron 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

See you folks next week! -Robyn Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-10/cloud_sig.2011-0… Full Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-10/cloud_sig.2011-0… ========================== #fedora-meeting: Cloud SIG ========================== Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:49 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-10/cloud_sig.2011-0… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call! (rbergeron, 21:01:12) * EC2 (rbergeron, 21:04:18) * CloudFS (rbergeron, 21:23:41) * Aeolus / Deltacloud (rbergeron, 21:28:24) * LINK: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/aeolus/packages/ (mmorsi, 21:31:45) * Eucalyptus (rbergeron, 21:34:06) * BoxGrinder (rbergeron, 21:45:25) * s3cmd (gholms, 22:01:18) * Small-scale testing with s3cmd was successful. We now need a way to do larger-scale testing with a full-size Fedora repo. (gholms, 22:16:04) * ACTION: rbergeron talk to spevack about adding brianlamere to community ec2 account (rbergeron, 22:26:18) * ACTION: rbergeron to send a mail to spot, skvidal, smooge, jforbes, spevack, and anyone else suggested about "what are all the accounts, and what stuff should be in those accounts" and copy cloud folks (rbergeron, 22:27:05) * Announcements (rbergeron, 22:34:02) * LINK: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/special-events/build-open-source-clou… (rbergeron, 22:35:09) * Any other business?? (rbergeron, 22:38:31) Meeting ended at 22:40:06 UTC. Action Items ------------ * rbergeron talk to spevack about adding brianlamere to community ec2 account * rbergeron to send a mail to spot, skvidal, smooge, jforbes, spevack, and anyone else suggested about "what are all the accounts, and what stuff should be in those accounts" and copy cloud folks Action Items, by person ----------------------- * brianlamere * rbergeron talk to spevack about adding brianlamere to community ec2 account * jforbes * rbergeron to send a mail to spot, skvidal, smooge, jforbes, spevack, and anyone else suggested about "what are all the accounts, and what stuff should be in those accounts" and copy cloud folks * rbergeron * rbergeron talk to spevack about adding brianlamere to community ec2 account * rbergeron to send a mail to spot, skvidal, smooge, jforbes, spevack, and anyone else suggested about "what are all the accounts, and what stuff should be in those accounts" and copy cloud folks * skvidal * rbergeron to send a mail to spot, skvidal, smooge, jforbes, spevack, and anyone else suggested about "what are all the accounts, and what stuff should be in those accounts" and copy cloud folks * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (155) * gholms (89) * brianlamere (67) * jforbes (43) * clalance (34) * skvidal (32) * ke4qqq (25) * jgreguske (20) * jdarcy (14) * obino (12) * dgilmore (11) * jsmith (8) * zodbot (5) * mgoldmann|away (4) * rackerhacker (4) * mmorsi (4) * nirik (1) * tatica (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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sd devices on FC14 AMI not valid?
by David HM Spector 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

I am trying to get an attached EBS volume to mount on a customized (ots of php and rails packages) version of the FC14 AMI. It seems the sd devices aren't made by default; but even once they're made, mount refuses to mount the volume saying " /dev/sdf is not a valid block device" Its a an ext3 filesystem so nothing novel there. Everything works fine on my older instances with the same scripts; I can get he EBS volume to attach to the instance (I have some custom ruby scripts that work at startup to attach vol ids passed as user data) and the perms/maj/min device numbers look OK too (as one would expect from MAKEDEV). Anything obvious I am missing? tnx, David ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David HM Spector spector at zeitgeist dot com http://www.zeitgeist.com ~ ~ ~ "New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not taking part in them?'" --H. G. Wells

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Cloud SIG Meeting Reminder: 2011/02/10, 2100 UTC, in #fedora-meeting
by Robyn Bergeron 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Meeting Details: Thursday, 2011/02/10 @2100 UTC (In NA - East coast, 4pm; West coast, 1pm.) Meeting channel: #fedora-meeting, irc.freenode.net Other details are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG. See you there! -Robyn

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Silly FC14 EC2 AMI question... root password or sudo from ec-user account..?
by David HM Spector 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Silly question - how does one gain root access on these AMIs? The ec2-user account is in it's own group and not in wheel/root.. _David ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David HM Spector spector at zeitgeist dot com http://www.zeitgeist.com ~ ~ ~ "New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not taking part in them?'" --H. G. Wells

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ANNOUNCE: Oz version 0.1.0 released
by Chris Lalancette 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

All, I'm pleased to announce the first release of Oz, version 0.1.0. Oz is a tool for doing automated installation of operating systems using the native installation tools. While Oz is part of the Aeolus umbrella, and thus intended to be used in a cloud management environment, it is also useful as a standalone tool to do guest installation. This first release focusses on providing the basic infrastructure to do guest installs. There are 3 possible phases to a guest install (and all 3 are optional): 1) Installation of a JEOS. Oz creates an automated installation file (a kickstart, winnt.sif, preseed, etc), and then launches a KVM virtual machine to do the installation. By default, a minimal JEOS is always installed to reduce the likelihood of installation failure (though this behavior can be overriden) 2) Customization. Once a guest is installed from step 1) (or otherwise provided), the virtual machine is launched and a native tool is used to do installation of additional packages and files. For instance, in the case of modern linux, ssh is used to upload files and run commands to install additional packages. 3) Manifest generation. After the guest installation and customization are done (if any), a package manifest (and some other metadata) can be extracted from the image. As mentioned, all 3 steps above are optional; you can start at step 1 and run all the way to step 3 using oz, or you can install a guest using another method and skip directly to steps 2 or 3. Documentation of how to do these sorts of things are on the Oz webpage at http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html. At present, Oz can install the following types of guests: Fedora: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 Fedora Core: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 RHEL 2.1: GOLD, U2, U3, U4, U5, U6 RHEL 3: GOLD, U1, U2, U3, U4, U5, U6, U7, U8, U9 RHEL 4: GOLD, U1, U2, U3, U4, U5, U6, U7, U8 RHEL 5: GOLD, U1, U2, U3, U4, U5, U6 RHEL 6: 0 Ubuntu: 6.10, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04.[1,2,3,4], 8.10, 9.04, 9.10 Windows: 2000, XP, 2003 RHL: 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8, 9 OpenSUSE: 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 Note that not all guest types can do all 3 of the steps above. The Oz webpage lists which backends can do which phases. Instructions on how to download Oz are at http://aeolusproject.org/oz-download.html As usual, comments, questions, bug reports, and patches are welcome for Oz. -- Chris Lalancette

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Toooooooooooday! Cloud SIG Meeting Reminder: 2011/02/03, 2100 UTC, in #fedora-meeting
by Robyn Bergeron 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Meeting Details: Thursday, 2010/02/03 @2100 UTC (In NA - East coast, 4pm; West coast, 1pm.) Meeting channel: #fedora-meeting, irc.freenode.net Other details are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG. See you there! -Robyn

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