CentOS on CentOS image build issues I installed BoxGrinder on my CentOS 5.5 workstation. I have encountered some problems in building a CentOS VM image in this environment. I solved or worked around some of the problems, but others remain. H... 
Documentation and Controlling image creation Hello, Just getting started with trying out BoxGrinder. I am quite impressed that I was able to install and create a simple VM image with no problems. I am now trying to create images for specific ... 
Beginning with cloud and JBoss Hi all, I've started learning about cloud computing basics and found an interesting presentation at http://www.redhat.com/summit/sessions/jboss.html where it's explained that in order to use a JBoss cluster out of b... 
Missing deps for boxgrinder Hello Installed boxgrinder repo...I am using Centos 5.x...i386...getting ... No package rpmdevtools available. No package libguestfs available. No package ruby-libguestfs available. No package guest... 
Boxgrinder on EC2 Hello I'd like to install Boxgrinder on a Centos Instance running on EC2/EBS and use it to generate AMI images there, rather than generate on my home machine & do a slow update through DSL. How rea... Can't build image after clean install From our community member: Hi, just installed a fresh F14 laptop and added all boxgrinder packages. [udo@npe appliances]$ rpm -qa | grep boxgrinder rubygem-boxgrinder-build-local-delivery-plugin-doc-... 
Help for Appliance Automation Hi Friends, I have installed Boxgrinder and all its prerequisites on my fedora 14 machine. It is working nicely and I am able to make the Boxgrinder builds from Appliance definition file (fedora-basic.appl) us... 
Centos5 x86_64 boxgrinder install Hello all, I'm trying to install boxgrinder in a centos5 x86_64 box. However, yum complaints when installing appliance-tools as it depends on livecd-tools >= 020. I checked the boxgrinder repository and no live... 
Tutorial request: Fedora 14 + Postgres 8.x + JBoss.5.x / 6.x appliance for Amazon EC2 From one of our community members: Hello, is there any step-by-step (quick start) tutorial how to create Fedora 14 + Postgres 8.x + JBoss.5.x / 6.x appliance for Amazon EC2 ? For my projects I ... Grind Fedora 14 KVM image with encrypted partition Currently testing Boxgrinder to create KVM images, however one upcoming requirement will be to create Fedora 14 images that have encrypted root partition, as supported in the standard Fedora 14 install. Is the... 
Boxgrinder build -> execution expired (Timeout::Error) Hello, I'm trying to build a simple fedora 13 appliance (using quickstart appf file). I activated traces and verbose in boxgrinder building command line. And now I have the following error : &#... 
Boxgrinder build failed -> TypeError Hi everybody, I'm trying to build a simple fedora appliance using quickstart. I've some trouble with the boxgrinder build command. Here is the error I have : -bash-4.1# boxgrinder-build --trace... Centos repository queries fail because of i686 architecture. I am using the meta appliance at this link http://dist.stormfolio.boxgrinder.org/meta/boxgrinder-meta-1.2-fedora-13-i686-vmware.tgz to try and build centos 5 . Keep getting errors when it tries to connect ... 
Augeas save failed on guestfs Hi, I'm trying to build an EBS image of fedora 13, using the new EBS delivery plugin, but I get an error everytime. A small extract of the output follows (the entire log file and output can be found as attachm... 
building an appliance file throws error Hello, when trying to build an appl file, an error was occured. Any help please? Thanks Younes 
post section inheritance I'm finding that inherited appliance "post" sections don't apply in the order that I would expect: ancestor first. Bug or feature? 
appliance with required packages Hello, i want to create an appliance file for jbossesb. Is there any appliance which contains only the os and the required packages e.g fedora.appl ... i have read that cirras.appl exists. But it comes with a... Package mkinitrd not exist in the repository? Hello, when building an appl file (jbossesb-base.appl), an error has occured saying : "Package mkinitrd for jbossesb appliance not found in repositories". I think that the package mkinitrd not e... Installing on CentOS 5 I tried following the instructions at http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-14384 for setting up a BoxGrinder environment on a CentOS 5 machine but didn't get very far. The initial yum install command references a... 
Producing an EBS backed AMI So it turns out I need an EBS backed AMI for an AWS usecase. I just looked at what EBS was from here: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/new-amazon-ec2-feature-boot-from-elastic-block-store.html Is that an op... 
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