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msevior (msevior-gmail) wrote : Re: [Bug 993010] Re: No reliable documentation on how to build RedHat flavoured VMS

Hi Lorin,

Yes. We can do that.

Cheers

Martin

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Lorin Hochstein
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> We recently added a brief section on tools for obtaining pre-built
> images and building your own images:
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-
> compute/admin/content/ch_image_mgmt.html
>
> Right now we're really dependent on third parties for documenting how to create distribution-specific virtual machine images.
> While  Ubuntu is very good at providing ready-made VM images that are compatible with OpenStack <http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/>,the other distributions are not really there yet.
>
> Would you be willing to contribute your notes back to the documentation
> project?
>
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> Title:
>  No reliable documentation on how to build RedHat flavoured VMS
>
> Status in OpenStack Manuals:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  We have spent the 6 months attempting to build reliable Scientific
>  Linux 5.* instances for openstack. This has been a very frustrating
>  experience involving much trial and error. It would help enormously if
>  the there was a document describing how to do this with tools
>  available to standard redhat flavoured linux distributions.
>
>  It was really very surprising that the this entirely mainstream
>  distribution did not have such documentation.
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