Regarding packer, I believe cosmic has done most of that. See https://github.com/MissionCriticalCloud/systemvm-packer/blob/master/README.md
Erik Den tirsdag 19. april 2016 skrev Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> følgende: > Hi all, > > Will and I had some discussions around systemvm template on one of the > PRs, I wanted to bring the discussion here on dev@. > > Provided we've some features merged before the freeze date in May, we will > need to build a new systemvm-template with likely following new packages > (assuming the feature PRs get merged): > > - Zebra and related packages required by OSPF stuff from Abhi > > - Strongswan required by strongswan-vpn PR from Jayapal > > To reduce scope, I suggest we still use Debian7 as base. As soon as these > PRs get merged, we can create early systemvmtemplates in order to have them > available for early testing (and against other PRs). > Will raised questions around where and how to build them -- I suppose we > can reuse the systemvmtemplate builder Jenkins jobs (or create a new one if > that's not working/broke) and we can use community-maintained hosting > places to host them, I don't know if ASF can provide us any place to host > them (S3, servers etc.). Comments, questions? > > For long term (likely 4.10/LTS), I hope to have following work we can do > around systemvm templates: > > - Try to reduce systemvm template and systemvm.iso size > > - Migrate to Debian 8 based base-template, newer packages and > kernel > > - Fix systemvm.iso init scripts (cloud early script, > password-server script etc.) to be systemd compatible > > - Evaluate and migrate Python scripts to using Python3 (if > possible that would be great as more distros are moving to use Python 3.x > as default) > > - Migrate to using Java8 JRE (both for systemvm agents and mgmt. > server) > > - Migrate the systemvm build system to use packer with KVM, > instead of using veewee/VirtualBox > > Regards. > > Regards, > > Rohit Yadav > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com <javascript:;> > www.shapeblue.com > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > @shapeblue >
