On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:15:38PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
Could we build the appliance on the target system and only update it on package upgrades?
While you could do this, I don't think it's a good idea. The main part of building libguestfs in Fedora is we run the whole test suite on the appliance, thus ensuring it has a high chance of actually working when downloaded by the end user. We often find errors too -- for example only two days ago we ran across a bug in the upstream 'file' program. Since it's a supermin appliance, distributing it is not an issue because it's only a couple of megabytes compressed. I leave it up to your discretion though. Rich. -- 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 Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v