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Description of problem: Virt-builder is a tool for quickly customizing cloud images of various operating systems. For example you can do: virt-builder fedora-19 --format qcow2 --size 20G --install @XFCE and get a custom Fedora 19 image with plenty of disk space and XFCE desktop installed. If everything is cached, the process takes between 30 seconds and a couple of minutes. Note this is different from Oz (it doesn't do a full install) and different from livecd-tools (it doesn't make installers). It is more similar to doing virt-resize + virt-sysprep. Virt-builder is a new feature which was added in libguestfs 1.24. Adding it to RHEL 7.1 (rebase: bug 1021149) is trivial. However if we were just to add it, then it would offer a less-than-ideal choice of images to install: $ virt-builder -l centos-6 CentOS 6.4 debian-6 Debian 6 (Squeeze) debian-7 Debian 7 (Wheezy) fedora-18 Fedora® 18 fedora-19 Fedora® 19 scientificlinux-6 Scientific Linux 6.4 ubuntu-10.04 Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) ubuntu-12.04 Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) ubuntu-13.10 Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) So the real issue is not how to add it, but how and where to host RHEL cloud images, and possibly how to make sure these cloud images attach automatically to RHN for updates etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libguestfs 1.24 libguestfs 1.25 contains several new features which are candidates for backporting. Additional info: A thread explaining how to try out virt-builder now: http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhos-tech/2013-November/msg00086.html It's possible we could use this in RHOS instead of the fundamentally insecure disk-image-builder tool. See the thread starting here: http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhos-tech/2013-November/thread.html#00097 I have built a collection of RHEL cloud images internally. To use them, do: export VIRT_BUILDER_SOURCE=http://file.rdu.redhat.com/~rjones/builder/index.asc and then run virt-builder as normal, eg: $ virt-builder -l rhel-6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 rhel-6.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 rhel-6.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 rhel-6.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Note that these don't use RHN. Their yum configuration points directly at http://download.devel.redhat.com/released/ Adding RHN support to virt-builder is TBD.
version : libguestfs-1.28.1-1.9.el7.x86_64 # virt-builder virt-builder: virt-builder os-version Missing 'os-version'. Use '--list' to list available template names. # virt-builder installed.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0303.html