Re: [Rdo-list] Automatic resizing of root partitions in RDO Icehouse

On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:04:56PM +0000, St. George, Allan L. wrote: [...] Here's a shorter and faster method. It needs virt-builder 1.26 which is in Fedora >= 20. You don't need to (and should not) run it as root. virt-builder centos-6 \ --size 10G \ --format qcow2 \ --root-password password:123456 \ --run-command 'rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm https://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/x86_64/puppetlabs-release-6-7.no... \ --update \ --install cloud-utils,cloud-init,parted,git,puppet \ --edit '/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg: s/(cloud_init_modules)/$1\n - resolv-conf/' \ --edit '/etc/ssh/sshd_config: s/.*PermitRootLogin.*/PermitRootLogin yes/; s/.*PasswordAuthentication.*/PasswordAuthentication yes/' Well there's some puppet configuration that I got bored converting, but you can use --edit or --run-command or --firstboot-command to do essentially arbitrary customization. There's much more information in the manual. I guarantee this will run at least an order of magnitude faster or your money back. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top