On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:24:26PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. Trying it out, it looks to me that they don't > offer the same functionality. virt-builder downloads an image that > someone else prepared (not sure how?)
At the moment using: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/builder/website/debian.sh but I intend to get out of the business of building disk images for virt-builder, and use the cloud images prepared by distros. > and adapts it. oz-install creates a new image by booting a normal > d-i ISO together with preseeding. Yup, that is basically correct. Of course virt-builder is way faster. > Is it possible to do that with virt-builder? No -- although you could run the script above, building your own images for your own virt-builder template repository, and then use virt-builder to quickly deploy them. > For my purposes, oz-install's approach is even better than > virt-install's approach of doing debootstrapping, since I want the > full D-I experience. So these tools look complementary to me. Correct. > To reduce confusion, maybe a small discussion in the package > description or README.Debian is appropriate to explain the differences. > > Btw, thanks for doing the Oz Debian packaging. Was there any reason > it wasn't uploaded back then? That's a good question -- I don't actually recall at all :-/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150416180158.ga29...@redhat.com
