On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Deepak Shetty <dpkshe...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 08:36:51AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> > > for this. First, you can use Vagrant, and the provided Vagrant images.
>> > > They're basically made for this case. Or, second, you can use the
>> > > "testcloud" tool to launch the local
>> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Local_Test_Cloud
>> > On the point of expectations though, we might want to highlight some
>> > of the requirements a bit more clearly on the download page.
>>
>> Hmmm, yeah -- current wording on the Cloud Base Image download page is
>> "The images on this page are Fedora Cloud images for creating general
>> purpose virtual machines (VMs)." However, that's not really accurate.
>>
>> Maybe like:
>>
>> "Fedora Cloud Base images are tailored for running in cloud
>> environments. Launch one and install Fedora packages to build your
>> cloud computing solution. If you are interested in running this on a
>> laptop, see the Vagrant images below, or check out [testcloud]."
>>
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> Why not provide a image that has root or non-root user with std. passwd ?
> whats the problem with that ?
>
> Why add the vagrant dep at all ? I understand Vagrant is widely used
> but for those who don't want to use, a simple ready-to-consume image
> would help better. It could also help in attracting more attention / crowd
> :)
>
> Also since cloud image is the most downloaded one, how about
> providing a .iso file with pre-loaded user/passwd, so that people
> willing to use cloud-image in non-cloud env (local, virt-mgr etc) can use
> the iso file as the cloud-init data source ?
>


Last but not the least, pls provide a link on getfedora.org for downloading
n-1, n-2 fedora cloud images, the last time i had a need, had to google
and eventaully had to download it from someone's blog/dropbox site

thanx,
deepak

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