AMI delivery plugin issue Hello: I am trying to upload a EC2 image bundled as AMI to my S3 bucket. All's good so far. I hit an issue which I wanted to discuss. I saw that, boxgrinder failed with: (f16-owncloud is my appilance name btw.... 
Post-first appliance queries Hello: This is my first post here and comes shortly after I built my first appliance with BoxGrinder - and hopefully an useful one too - an ownCloud appliance. I have detailed the steps in my blog post here. I faced a... BoxGrinder and OpenStack plugin Hello, I know that the OpenStack delivery plugin is only at "technology preview" status, but I decided to try and use it anyway and provide feedback from my experience with it. 1) I encountered ... 
compressedfs/SquashFS & unionFS with boxgrinder Hey all, This is likely a newbie question in the virtualization/boxgrinder environment, but is it feasible (and good idea or cons to be aware of) for having the base OS stored on compressedFS or SquashFS to further r... 
[Newbie question] Boxgrinder in the context of OpenShift If I need to deploy an enterprise Java application to the OpenShift Flex cloud, which one of the following options is the correct (or appropriate / best) approach: Option 1: Use the OpenShift Eclipse Plug-In ... 
File Path for parent appliance file Hi, I want to specify a location for the parent appl file in a child appl file. Eg. My directory structure looks like this" Folder 1 |__parent.appl Folder 2 |__child.appl ... 
Best practice, build platform vs kernel version in appliance? What is recommended as platform when building specific release versions? If I plan to build RHEL 6.2 appliances should I build on the same platform? This to get the corresponding kernel version. I ask ... 
New meta appliance Hello New boxgrinder 0.10 is awesome! But meta appliance in amazon is old When it will with new boxgrinder? Thank You 
qcow2 + libvirt problem I have * machine 1: Fedora 16 with BoxGrinder 0.10 * machine 2: CentOS 6.2, configured as KVM host with libvirt I want to create a VM with boxgrinder-build and transfer the machine to my KVM ho... 
Never "rm -rf build/..." an aborted installation Within build there is a directory install_root/dev which has a bound mount of /dev. Bye /dev . Never remove an aborted installation! Since /dev is a devtmpfs I'm going to attempt a reboot. Wish me luck. 
sh: error reading information on service netfs: No such file or directory On Fedora 16: $ cat rawhide-jeos.appl name: rawhide-jeos summary: Just Enough Operating System based on Fedora Rawhide os: name: fedora version: rawhide hardware: &#... Permission denied - /var/lib/libvirt/images On Fedora 16 with SELinux set to enforce : $ sudo -E boxgrinder-build rawhide-jeos.appl -d libvirt WARNING: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-IPcYsM/pkcs11: No such file or directory I, [2012-01-24T13:23:07.162840 #2... Centos6 appliance build failed For log & appl file http://pastebin.com/UBp7cxHV Used boxgrinder version = 0.10.0 , 0.11.0 (nightly build rpm) 
boxgrinder and debian Hello, Are there any plans for the future releases of boxgrinder to support building debian appliances too? Thanks! 
Error Building a new appliance Hi, Please help fix the below error. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 44, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *ar... 
Specifying additional repos causes error Hi, According to http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials/appliance-definition/, when you specify an additional repo in appliance definition file, it should be installed on the appliance. However, I am getting a ... appliance directory Hello, I've just installed boxgrinder on CentOS 6.2 and I'm about to build my first CentOS 6.2 EC2 AMI. But I seem not to be able to locate /root/.boxgrinder/ directory. Do I have to create it manually, or nee... Openstack not bootable media found i build centos image for openstack After launching image it says no bootable media found. Version=BoxGrinder Build 0.10.0 Command run for build boxgrinder-build centos.appl -p ec2 -d openstack cat centos.... Build old version of centos Hello I'm try build centos 5.5 and set version: 5.5, but get error F, [2012-01-04T09:16:51.006961 #935] FATAL -- : RuntimeError: Unsupported operating system version selected: 5.6. Supported versions ar... Appliance for ESX is large (in GBs) Hello all boxgrinders. Now I have succesfully built an appliance that I will use at several different sites to support Apple mac clients. It works like a charm! But now to my question. During developme...
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