-1 on Arch as well. Moving to Debian 9 seems the wiser choice IMO. I've used Packer before and I really like it, the only downside that I see is that Packer lacks support for XenServer VHD images. There is some work on a XenServer plugin but I haven't tested that. If the community decides to use Packer, I can do some initial validation of it on XenServer.
Thanks, -Syed On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:19 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > Op 24 juli 2017 om 19:07 schreef Rene Moser <m...@renemoser.net>: > > > > > > Hi Rohit > > > > > > On 07/23/2017 06:08 PM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > > > > Just want to kick an initial discussion around migration to Debian9 > based systemvmtemplate, and get your feedback on the same. > > > > > > Here's a work-in-progress PR: https://github.com/apache/ > cloudstack/pull/2198 > > > > Have you considered to replace veewee by packer? > > > > Packer is really nice indeed. We use it to build our templates [0] which > we use on CloudStack. > > Building the SSVM using Packer should be rather easy I think. > > [0]: https://github.com/pcextreme/packer-templates > > > Our friends from schubergphilis have already done some work here > > https://github.com/MissionCriticalCloud/systemvm-packer. > > > > However there would be also an official way to convert the definitions > > https://www.packer.io/guides/veewee-to-packer.html > > > > Regards René >
