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Bug 1215480

Summary:	[RFE] Support bare metal squashfs.img based provisioning via Anaconda
Product:	[Retired] Beaker	Reporter:	Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	beaker-dev-list
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	tools-bugs <tools-bugs>
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Version:	develop	CC:	dcallagh, ebaak, lmartins, rjoost
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Description Nick Coghlan 2015-04-26 23:57:48 UTC

Lucas Gomes (from the Red Hat OpenStack Ironic team) recently pointed out to me that modern Anaconda supports formatting a system based on a squashfs image: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/blob/master/pyanaconda/packaging/livepayload.py (This capability appears to be part of the way provisioning from a LiveUSB/LiveCD works)

Over on kickstart-list, Gene Czarcinski describes a way to get that working from a kickstart file: https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2014-November/msg00004.html

And then also added that to the Fedora wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart/KickstartingFedoraLiveInstallation

Bug 1108455 added preliminary support for image based provisioning of guest recipes to Beaker via the virt-image-install task (https://beaker-project.org/docs/user-guide/beaker-provided-tasks.html#distribution-virt-image-install), so this Anaconda feature may represent a way to bring a comparable capability to Beaker's bare metal provisioning support.

Comment 1 Dan Callaghan 2018-03-07 07:06:33 UTC

Is this a dupe of bug 1420600?

Comment 2 Roman Joost 2018-03-08 02:57:40 UTC

Yes I think so. Many thanks for pointing this out.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1420600 ***