On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 09:36:10PM +0000, Pierre Couzy wrote: > > OTOH I'm not sure that is the case for the Azure images, as of yet? > > Pierre? > > Debian images for Windows Azure must use a dedicated provisioning > agent. This agent has an Apache 2 licence, and is available on github > (https://github.com/Windows-Azure/WALinuxAgent). There's a debian > package in the works as well > (http://contrib.hupstream.com/azure/debian/). > > Is that license okay or do you want me to investigate other options ? Apache 2 license is perfectly fine. Do you know if the packaging in the working has been submitted for integration into Debian proper? > About packaging : Windows Azure packages images in VHD format. I > currently use hyper-v to create and manage VHD files but there's other > options if needed. Yes, that's one of the blocker I had in mind, that others Debian developers have already mentioned prior to the creation of this list. I understand hyper-v is non-free. We'd rather build the VHD images using the free alternatives. If you, or anyone else, could give them a spin and test the results, that would be great. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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