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Thread General questions about BoxGrinder
General questions about BoxGrinderHi 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...
Update repo processHi, 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 deadlinksHello: 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 FailureHi, 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...
Thread Scientificlinux 6 appliance - appl file help
Scientificlinux 6 appliance - appl file helpHi 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...
partitionsHello 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 issueHello: 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 queriesHello: 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 pluginHello, 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 ...
Thread Question on what you can run in the "post" section
Question on what you can run in the "post" sectionHi, 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...
Thread compressedfs/SquashFS & unionFS with boxgrinder
compressedfs/SquashFS & unionFS with boxgrinderHey 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...
Thread [Newbie question] Boxgrinder in the context of OpenShift
[Newbie question] Boxgrinder in the context of OpenShiftIf 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 fileHi, 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 ...
Thread Best practice, build platform vs kernel version in appliance?
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 ...
qcow2 + libvirt problemI 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...
Thread Never "rm -rf build/..." an aborted installation
Never "rm -rf build/..." an aborted installationWithin 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.
Permission denied - /var/lib/libvirt/imagesOn 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
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