Imagefactory HVM support for EC2
by John Hover
Hi,
We're heavy users of Imagefactory for building VMs to run scientific
data processing on EC2 and on several private Openstack clusters.
Four questions:
Do you know if/when Imagefactory will begin supporting builds of
HVM-compatible images on EC2? The newer instance types no longer support
the PV images currently created. This is important to us because we
often run 20000-50000 cores at a time, and getting that kind of capacity
requires using multiple instance types.
I see no traffic at all on imagefactory-devel. Is this because the real
discussions are happening elsewhere, or is it really not a very active
project?
Is Redhat intending to continue Imagefactory as its image authoring
framework? I built a lot of infrastructure around Boxgrinder, only to
have it deprecated. I hope we're not facing the same situation with
Imagefactory.
We have several simple patches that have made things easier for us and
might be useful to others. Do you take pull requests via github, or some
other mechanism?
Thanks,
--john
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John Hover
Group Leader | Grid Group/Experiment Services
RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility | Brookhaven National Laboratory
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