General questions about BoxGrinder Hi All, I have some basic questions about BG (BoxGrinder) 1) When will be supported RHEL 6.2 ? 2) Is it posible to add a existing vmdk file to an appliance definition ? 3) Is it pos... 
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... 
partitions Hello again, I have some questions related to partitions. 1. How to create partition smaller than 1 gigabyte? I've tried '260M' and '260MB' (not for root partition of course) and all I get is D, [2011-... 
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 ... 
Question on what you can run in the "post" section Hi, I have a question regarding what should (or can) be run in the post section in a build configuration. We've been trying to build a Centos appliance that has certain custom apps installed (from zips) which are th... 
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...
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