[Thincrust-devel] Expanding a Thincrust loopback file onto mounted block device

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Mon Sep 14 19:59:28 UTC 2009


On 09/14/2009 11:32 AM, David Huff wrote:
> On 09/14/2009 10:12 AM, Cameron Ross wrote:
>> I'm evaluating the Thincrust tooling to create fedora-based appliance
>> images.  My intention is to deploy these images on actual hardware and EC2.
>> With the help of Thincrust I'm able to create a raw image, convert this
>> image to an AMI image and successfully deploy it on EC2.  Does Thincrust
>> have a script that can expand the raw image contained within a loopback file
>> out onto a mounted block device?
>
> I am a little confused on exactly what you are asking?  To provision an
> appliance described in your ks file to bare metal you can use existing
> ks support in anaconda.

Let us know the new case, and we can try and get seomthing into the tooling.

-- bk




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