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Another thing that needed to be documented while it was fresh in my mind…

So, Shaggy and I are busy designing a system around vmbuilder 0.10 in Jaunty, which includes options such as booting off an iso, partitioning disks, and loading VM’s from preset configuration files — among other awesome options. And, we’re curious how some of our options are going to play into the story if we booted off of our installation media iso from the LOUD system. Our goal in this to create an automation system for creating servers (lcsee-vm-builder 2.0, effectively)…

When we try it though, half the shit is broke. ISO images don’t work… Configuration files don’t work. This code is live in Ubuntu right now! Given, the system is only version 0.10, which means the system is expected to be early in its life. But I expect if the man page says I can do something that I should be able to do it. Not that I have to try it , watch it break — and then spend half an hour on the launchpad bug system finding out all of this shit was broke to begin with and that it has been broken for months.

Grrr.

Looks like we’re going to try Red Hat’s virt-install kit instead — it apparently works — even if it is version .50…