Sorry to hijack, I am also working on getting Cloudstack images built (openvm.eu) and am wondering (as someone who has never touched packer, vagrant, virtualbox) what is the advantage of using Packer instead of Libvirt's virt-install or other tools?
Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hany Fahim" <h...@vmfarms.com> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, 10 September, 2015 13:30:04 > Subject: Packer and CloudStack > Hi Folks, > > I’m currently looking into adopting Packer <https://packer.io/> to build > images for CloudStack easily. I’ve been looking in packer-cloudstack > <https://github.com/schubergphilis/packer-cloudstack> plugin, but > unfortunately there have been some backwards incompatible changes made to > Packer that prevents this plugin from working. We do not have direct access > to the CloudStack installation we’re working with, and only have the API > available to us. > > I’d like to ask the community if anyone else has got Packer to work in some > form with CloudStack? At the very least, we’re looking for a way for Packer > to produce VHD images that can be imported into CloudStack manually. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > ---- > Hany Fahim > VM Farms > http://vmfarms.com > h...@vmfarms.com > 1-866-278-0021 x700 > Twitter: @vmfarms
