[virt-tools-list] virt-bootstrap proposal

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 07:24:13PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Sorry for the delayed response. Just looked now.
> 
> On 03/09/2017 05:09 AM, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Those following libvirt's mailing already saw a similar thread started there.
> > I have worked on a virt-bootstrap tool to make it easy to instanciate
> > container root file system out of docker images (and possible other sources).
> > 
> > You'll see a wrap up blog post explaining the workflow here:
> > 
> > http://bosdonnat.fr/system-container-images.html
> > 
> > Daniel suggested to have the virt-bootstrap code (or whatever the final name
> > could be) along with virt-install and virt-manager.
> 
> Besides being written in python and being virt related this doesn't have much
> overlap with virt-manager.git code. All current command line tools are largely
> concerned with manipulating/generating libvirt XML, and looks like
> virt-bootstrap won't ever do that? So for example it will have a completely
> orthogonal test suite. That's my initial impression anyways

Oh, I didn't look at the code, but I thought it was doing all the XML generation
too. ie populate the chroot and configure the libvirt guest in the same manner
that virt-install would do, and would hence benefit from sharing code.

> Right now the tool is basically just a wrapper around skopeo; besides handling
> virt-builder images, what else do you foresee the tool handling? Different
> formats, example command line arguments, etc. Just trying to get a sense of
> how much bigger the tool will get.

I'd expect it to be able to do bootstrapping of yum / dpkg into chroots at
some point.


Regards,
Daniel
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