cloud March 2011

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ANNOUNCE: oz 0.3.0 release
by Chris Lalancette 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

All, I'm pleased to announce release 0.3.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user. Release 0.3.0 is mostly a bugfix release for Oz. However, there are also a few minor features included as well. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.2.0 and 0.3.0 are: - Add the ability to specify the output directory for screenshots (the default is still CWD). - Add the ability to specify the bridge to use for installs (the default is still the first libvirt NAT bridge on the system). - Nicer error messages from the command-line tools when debugging is off. - Add the ability to install Debian 5 and 6. - Detect servers that can't possibly work for installing RedHat/Fedora OSs, and fail the install. - Allow installs with spaces in the name. - Add the ability to install OpenSUSE 11.4. More documentation on Oz is available here: http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html If you have any questions or comments about oz, please feel free to contact aeolus-devel(a)fedorahosted.org or me (clalance(a)redhat.com) directly. Thanks, -- Chris Lalancette

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Nova needs a new owner
by David Nalley 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

While the package hasn't yet been approved, Silas has indicated that he doesn't have an abundance of time to maintain nova[1]. I know there are several people who are looking for nova to hit fedora's repos. I've talked to a few people individually, and a few have indicated they would pick it up if no one else did, but wanted to see if anyone wanted to pick this up. I'll be happy to do the review for this if someone wants to step up. Thanks, David [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649495

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Meeting Reminder: 2011/03/25, 1900 UTC, in #fedora-meeting
by Marek Goldmann 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Another week -- another meeting! (In 0.5 hr, so hurry up!) Meeting Details: Friday, 2011/03/18 @1900 UTC (In NA - East coast, 3pm; West coast, 12pm.) Meeting channel: #fedora-meeting, irc.freenode.net --Marek

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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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EC2 unspin page
by Robyn Bergeron 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

I created a basic (very, very, basic) page that is to serve as the EC2... not exactly a spin... page. I more or less took some of the stuff off the spins page template, and deleted a few things that weren't really specific to us (artwork, etc). It needs LOTS of love. By basic I mean, nearly completely empty. If you have any ideas about what to fill in with, or think that other things should be added/deleted, by all means, DO IT! :) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EC2_unspin (If anyone has a better idea for a name than "EC2 unspin" for the page... that would be lovely too.) -Robyn

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Cloud SIG Meeting Minutes - 2011-03-18
by Robyn Bergeron 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Thanks for coming to our new and improved (hopefully!) meeting time! Marek pointed out today that our wiki (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG) could use some love, including updating with more recent info on what we're working on, etc. Feel free to pitch in. As the saying goes... it's a wiki, be bold :) -Robyn Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-18/cloud_sig.2011-0… Full Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-18/cloud_sig.2011-0… ========================== #fedora-meeting: Cloud SIG ========================== Meeting started by rbergeron at 19:00:58 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-18/cloud_sig.2011-0… Meeting summary --------------- * Roll call :) (rbergeron, 19:01:20) * Aeolus! (rbergeron, 19:05:35) * LINK: http://aeolusproject.org/page/Packages_Missing_From_Fedora (clalance, 19:07:40) * packages are still available for reviewing love, see link above or email from mmorsi to cloud(a)lists.fp.o last week (rbergeron, 19:13:03) * EC2 (rbergeron, 19:14:06) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EC2_unspin (rbergeron, 19:14:46) * EC2 unspin page needs a lot of love. Please help! (rbergeron, 19:15:28) * ACTION: rbergeron to mail list with link to unspin page (rbergeron, 19:30:13) * CloudFS (rbergeron, 19:32:59) * Open Floor (rbergeron, 19:37:20) * WIKI NEEDS LOVE (rbergeron, 19:38:25) * ACTION: rbergeron to update meeting times, move cloud SIG meeting logs to an alternate page. (rbergeron, 19:39:27) * IDEA: update things we're working on now, perhaps create a done list too. (rbergeron, 19:40:25) * ACTION: jforbes to follow up with spevack on amazon account stuffz (rbergeron, 19:52:49) Meeting ended at 19:58:20 UTC. Action Items ------------ * rbergeron to mail list with link to unspin page * rbergeron to update meeting times, move cloud SIG meeting logs to an alternate page. * jforbes to follow up with spevack on amazon account stuffz Action Items, by person ----------------------- * jforbes * jforbes to follow up with spevack on amazon account stuffz * rbergeron * rbergeron to mail list with link to unspin page * rbergeron to update meeting times, move cloud SIG meeting logs to an alternate page. * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (108) * brianlamere (28) * jforbes (24) * clalance (19) * jdarcy (8) * mgoldmann (8) * ksk1 (6) * zodbot (4) * mmorsi (4) * jgreguske (2) * thomasj (2) * ke4qqq (2) * obino (1)

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fedora repo testing
by Brian LaMere 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Basic rundown: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1oezZB4JZ9Frl5jYIZcS2GqzGd3VlDo9hey… yeah/no? Need me to expand on the how-to for the requirements, or can I assume the account owner can make their way through that? If they have boto, I can tell them the exact commands to run, if need be. Brian

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Today! Cloud SIG Meeting Reminder: 2011/03/18, 1900 UTC, in #fedora-meeting
by Robyn Bergeron 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

I've heard no major complaints about this time, so we shall proceed :) Meeting Details: Thursday, 2011/03/18 @1900 UTC (In NA - East coast, 3pm; West coast, 12pm.) Meeting channel: #fedora-meeting, irc.freenode.net Other details are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG. See you then! -Robyn

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New Meeting time proposal
by Robyn Bergeron 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Fridays, 12pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 1900 UTC. This was about as good as I could do - harish and sgordon were the only two who couldn't make it at this time. Haven't seen a response from brianlamere, yet, though :) Thoughts, questions, flames? If I don't hear anything over the rest of the day, I'll <picard>make it so.</picard> -Robyn

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ANNOUNCE: oz 0.2.0 release
by Chris Lalancette 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

All, I'm pleased to announce release 0.2.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user. There are quite a bit of bugfixes, features, and updates to Oz between 0.1.0 and 0.2.0. Some of them are: - The ability to upload individual files into a guest - The ability to specify extra repositories to install packages on the guest from - Updated documentation - More control over Oz's caching behavior. You can now specify whether you want Oz to cache the original ISO, the modified ISO, the resulting JEOS image, or any combination of the above - Support for installing Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 guests - Support for installing CentOS 3, 4, and 5 guests - Support for OpenSUSE 11.0 - Faster ISO extraction/generation - A user-configurable timeout for installation More documentation on Oz is available here: http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html If you have any questions or comments about oz, please feel free to contact aeolus-devel(a)fedorahosted.org or me (clalance(a)redhat.com) directly. Thanks, -- Chris Lalancette

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