Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian
(CCed people involved in the two following URLs:)
http://bugs.debian.org/592550
http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image
Le Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 09:28:29AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> >
> > What virtualisation solutions should be supported?
> > - Virtual Box seems like a natural candidate since it's free and
> > included since Squeeze.
> > - Vmware has a significant installed base and is relevant, although
> > proprietary
> > - Microsoft Virtual PC is likely also needed
> > - Qemu
> > - Citrix XenServer?
>
> - images for cloud infrastructures (AMI -- Amazon Machine Image)
Hello everybody,
thanks to the work of others, the way is open to create AMIs with a patched
version of debian-installer (see #592550).
Eric Hammond, who maintains since a long time some high profile Ubuntu AMIs,
has written sound recommendations about the production of such images for the
Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud:
http://alestic.com/2011/06/ec2-ami-security
http://groups.google.com/group/ec2debian/msg/8f12b422f881dbaa
Some unofficial Debian AMIs are already being produced, see
http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image
To enable secure SSH login, booting after kernel update, and other tasks, some
init, grub, and perhaps other scripts are needed, and if they were wrapped in a
Debian package, then the production AMIs could be fully automated from whithin
the Debian operating system.
I am still a beginner in the field, but if help is needed, I volunteer to
co-maintain such a package.
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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