Re: [Xen-users] filesystem image of Fedora Core for Xen?

[Tim Freeman <tfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been thinking off and on about posting guest images (and have already
from time to time) and I'm writing to offer some personal bandwidth I have;
either static (throttled) HTTP/FTP or maybe a bittorrent permanently peered
w/ Ted's to-be server?  I have around 30G of space for such a project (but
no inclination to run frequent backups on it).

Any way about it, we will contribute images to the decided on repository,
this is a great idea.   I have some base Debian and Gentoo images and we
will probably post some specialized Globus/Xen images soon.

Tim

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 01:29:07 +0000
Kristinn Soffanias Runarsson <soffanias@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ted, glad you are willing to help.
> 
> The thing is... I think the Xen developers would like to do more
> "developing" instead of hacking some distributions to boot as domU...
> And I don't consider my work development ;)
> 
> I'm building these images as we speak, and 'aq' is letting me download
> his debian and ubuntu images now.
> 
> Hosting would be great.. since I'm in ICELAND I don't have much
> bandwidth available.
> 
> I'm using the rest of the weekend trying these images out and
> hopefully get a Mandrake image going and I might take a pass at a SuSE
> image.
> 
> later
> 
> -soffi-
> 
> 
> On Apr 3, 2005 12:30 AM, Ted Hilts <thilts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  Kristinn
> >  
> >  If I understand you, you seem to be saying that for various distributions
> > like Mandrake, Fedora Core, Gentoo, SuSE, etc., you are willing to produce
> > Xen-based (Dom 0) linux base systems and put them on line???
> >  
> >  I was going to ask the developers of Xen to consider this as a facet of
> > their operation but I don't think their mandate allows them to do this or
> > they don't see doing this directly in line with what they are doing.  They
> > will be reading this so they can correct me if I am mistaken. So I have
> > hesitated in asking.  But there is no reason why a group of us cannot set up
> > our own facility working cooperatively with Xen developers and users.  We
> > are talking user issues here not development issues.  I would also we
> > interested in putting these systems onto DVDs in a manner that would
> > facilitate their installation on other computers.
> >  
> >  If you are willing to build and test these Xen-based (Dom 0) linux core
> > systems I will make provision for hosting them.  I am currently in the
> > process of establishing a sattelite connection between my LAN and the
> > Internet with a static IP address therefore download and upload activities
> > would be fast. I could dedicate a machine as the server. There would be tons
> > of hard drive storage available. But the details we could work out.  But we
> > would have to also define how this facility would be set up for access but
> > we can do this off-list because it does not bear directly on the Xen
> > development or user list mandates as near as I can tell.  If we do this I
> > would like to stress that we should have someone on the Xen development
> > group voluntarily watch over and strongly influence our activities.
> >  
> >  What do you think???
> >  
> >  Thanks, Ted
> >  
> >  
> >  Kristinn Soffanias Runarsson wrote:
> >  
> >  I'm build images for Fedora Core 3 and Centos 4 right now... I'll make
> > them available online as soon as they are ready... would you like to
> > see some other OS's ?
> > 
> > peace and love,
> > -soffi-
> > 
> > 
> > On Apr 2, 2005 3:09 PM, aq <aquynh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  
> >  
> >  hello,
> > 
> > I wonder if anybody out here is providing a filesystem image (rootfs)
> > of Fedora Core for Xen, so others can download and use it as domU?
> > 
> > In the user manual, there is a short guide for the newbie to use Xen
> > with ttylinux, and I think it would be very nice if somebody could
> > provides with other generic rootfs, like Fedora Core, Debian,
> > Slackware,..., so everybody wants to try Xen can easily take the first
> > steps.
> > 
> > Thank you a lot,
> > aq

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