Hi Tim, I think cloud-init is a must. I am maintaining CentOS building at http://dl.openvm.eu using virt-install+kickstarts ( http://dl.openvm.eu/cloudstack/centos/ks/ ).
HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Mackey" <tmac...@gmail.com> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 03:57:45 > Subject: Packer for XenServer VHDs > Everyone, > > I've been extending a XenServer builder some of the XenServer engineering > team have been working on to produce a VHD which would be suitable for > upload as a template. CentOS 7 is my guest OS type and have the XenServer > tools going in and guest password script running as a systemd service. > > From my perspective this is goodness, and I'll be showing at FOSDEM, but I > wanted to double check if there is more I should add in to make this as > usable as possible. If anyone has experience with CentOS 7 templates and > can share any gotchas, I can see if I can take care of them in the packer > provisioners. My plan is to also have samples for CentOS 6.5 and Ubuntu > 14.04, and those look more straight forward, but any gotchas someone wants > to point out will be welcome. > > Thanks > > -tim
