Hi all,
I’m working on adding Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) support to the virt-builder
template generator, and I’d appreciate feedback on the proposed approach.
Ubuntu 24.04 no longer publishes the Debian Installer tree used by the
existing virt-install/preseed path. This RFC imports a dated Canonical Noble
cloud image, verifies its pinned SHA-256, converts it to raw, and then reuses
the existing inspection, sysprep, compression, and index-generation stages.
Existing installer-based templates remain unchanged.
I tested this end to end on Ubuntu 24.04. The focused catalog/import tests,
shell syntax, OCaml parsing, XZ integrity, and generated-index checks passed.
The generated image had an empty machine ID, no SSH host keys or stale
cloud-init state, and a locked root account.
I have not run the full repository make check because this checkout lacked
the generated Autotools bootstrap files.
I’d especially appreciate your thoughts on:
- Using a pinned dated image versus SimpleStreams
- Preserving Noble’s native virtual size and cloud-init behavior
- The expected BIOS/UEFI boot validation before publication
Public branch:
https://github.com/aravindsivamani/guestfs-tools/tree/ubuntu-24.04-cloud-image-template
The patch is attached. Thanks for taking a look!
Best,
Aravind
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Cisco Systems
NSO Packages and Tooling Services
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