On 12/09/2014 11:47 AM, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com> writes:
> On 12/09/2014 11:20 AM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> It strikes me as odd that the Fedora 21 cloud images are hidden behind
>> the "Are you an OpenStack user?" link on
>>
https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/download/. It seems as if libvirt
>> users would also like to use the qcow2 images (100% of my sample
>> audience -- consisting of me -- agrees with that statement).
>>
>> Someone looking for qcow2 images for use outside of openstack may be
>> stymied by the current design.
>
> The images expect cloud-init to set the root password, right? So
> unless it's documented how to work around that, we shouldn't advertise
> for anything but a cloud environment.
Cloud-init supports different data sources
(
http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/datasources.html),
e.g. one can provide a special ISO. Cloud environment is really optional
here.
Right, but none of the common end user tools like boxes or
virt-manager/virt-install (or raw libvirt, or qemu) will do that for you. So
something would still need to be documented
- Cole