Build error Hello oh gurus! I have gotten some not so nice build errors when creating a supersimple appliance. Please advise. F, [2012-09-18T09:09:31.861080 #1941] FATAL -- : RuntimeError: An error occurred while ... 
Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.2 support Hi, Is RHEL 6.2 supported right now ? we need to create some appliances on RHEL 6.2 Thanks. 
boxgrinder-build not setting exit status on error Running rubygem-boxgrinder-build-0.10.2-1.fc16.noarch on Fedora 16. I noticed that when a build fails, I'm still getting exit 0. I tried '-b' thinking that would help, no difference. Am I... 
Problems with Enterprise v5 derivatives I'm having a bit of fun with CentOS 5 and SL 5 builds using the meta-appliance. I'm using a JEOS appliance definition file. name: JEOS os: name: centos version: 5 appliances: ... 
Support for --fsoptions? Hi all, I noticed in boxgrinder-build-0.10.2/lib/boxgrinder-build/plugins/os/rpm-based/src/appliance.ks.erb that there's support for --fsoptions via an options: key in a .appl file. However, that key isn... 
What are the virtual HD size limits? I have been trying to make a 1.2 TB virtual drive as part of a vmware images. Things are going very slowly... or just taking forever. I was wondering if there was a limitation on the size that the virtual drive can be... 
Export for Hyper-V? Hello all Does anyone have any input into this question? I can see that qemu-img can convert from hyper-v but have not found any good explanations on going the other way! I guess that if I create a raw image this can... 1.7 ec2 meta appliance pulled? Hi there, I was looking for the 1.7 version ec2 meta appliance AMI in the AMI list today and it looked like both the x86_64 and i686 versions of the 1.7 meta appliance had been pulled (or marked private). ... 
SUSE/SLES support? Has anybody looked into creating SUSE Enterprise VM's with boxgrinder? I'm willing to work on it, but I was wondering if anybody has done any work on it or determined that it's too hard? Thanks, ... 
64bit Fedora 15 images fail to boot on EC2 I am trying to generate a 64bit Fedora 15 image for EC2 containing boxgrinder so I can generate EBS images there. I have not been successul in booting any of the 64bit Fedora 15 images I have created. I have be... 
When will the 0.10.2 update be available? The meta-appliance is still using 0.10.1 and there doesn't appear to be a 0.10.2 release either in Gem or the archives. Are there plans to do a release? I'm itching to try a Fedora 17 build Grubby kernel update problems with CentOS 5 AMI (missing /boot partition) Hi All, I use boxgrinder to create my own CentOS 5 AMI for Amazon. The problem is when I want to update the kernel of that CentOS 5 instance "grubby" (part of mkinitrd) cannot modify /boot/grub/grub.conf with... 
Missing `gem_original_require' Hi, I am trying to install Boxgrinder on SL6. I basically followed the instructions from http://blog.frameos.org/2011/11/11/installing-boxgrinder-in-rhelcentos-6-distributions/. The problem is th... 
ESX plugin fails - can't convert Float into String (TypeError) I am trying to upload a newly created VM to the ESXi machine. It seems as if there is some issue getting the with the esx_host variable. here is the output of the log ......................... D, [2012-05-1... esx plugin, failing with load of 'main' plugin Hey all! I'm new to boxgrinder. I'm using it for my companies work with creating automated nightly images as well as deliverables for customers. We have the need to push out to an ESXi machine. I found the aw... kickstart support Hi All, Is it posible to use a kickstart file to build the OS ? Thanks. Update repo process Hi, I have a repository set up which is mirrored from the centos repo using rsync. It has the os and the updates sections. Now in the base.appl file i can specify the default repo for the OS section. Is there... 
Website gotchas and Github's deadlinks Hello: I noticed a few things here and there I wuold like to point out. The page at https://github.com/boxgrinder/boxgrinder-rest pointing to TorqueBox's build from CI is broken: http://ci.stormgrind.org/viewL... 
Log Shifting Failure Hi, A couple of times I kept running into the following error FATAL -- : Logger::ShiftingError: Shifting failed. Permission denied - log/boxgrinder.log.2 or log/boxgrinder.log.3 The build then fails a... Scientificlinux 6 appliance - appl file help Hi guys, I have created a couple of SL6.x appliances running on EC2 and it seems to work as intended in the sense that there is an image created. The problem seems to be that most parts of my appl file is igno... 
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