On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:24:38PM +0000, Adam Huffman wrote: I'll try and get around to this tomorrow. You might also be interested in the long term plan. We don't plan to host cloud images ourselves if we can avoid it. We would like to use cloud images published by the distros. In virt-builder 1.26, the single source index[0] will be replaced by an /etc/virt-builder.d/ directory containing configuration files pointing to multiple sources. Some of these will still be our own hosted distros. Over time I hope that more and more will point directly to metadata[1] and cloud images hosted by distros themselves. (Existing cloud images -- we're not asking anyone to make special virt-builder images, unless they deeply want to. Virt-builder upstream can consume cloud images in many different formats already.) Rich. [0] http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/index.asc [1] By "metadata" I mean: http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html#creating-and-signing-the-index-... -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v

Many thanks. I agree that re-using distro-provided images makes sense. I should point that I don't speak for SL, though I'm happy to suggest this. As you can imagine there's quite a lot of discussion in the SL community at the moment, given recent announcements... Best Wishes, Adam On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: