VirtImage

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= Building Spacewalk virt image =

[https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-devel/2009-October/msg00003.html Greg's original email]

This is only for F11 users, and primarily for people who want to see/play with the Postgres code as it moves forward.

1. Go get [http://thincrust.org/ thincrust], which is an appliance builder tool:

   {{{yum install thincrust}}}

2. Go get the kickstart file I built:

   [http://fedorapeople.org/~gdk/SPACEWALK/spacewalk.ks]

3. (Sadly still necessary) Build a local repo for Oracle, even if you don't intend to run Oracle at all (which, if you're playing with the PostgreSQL code, you won't):

   • Download the Oracle RPMs from Oracle
   • Drop them into a directory
   • From that directory, yum install createrepo
   • Make sure the Oracle repo in the ks file matches

'''NOTE:''' Once the Oracle deps are completely dead, this step can be ripped out.

4. Build your appliance! It will pull the latest RPMs from the nightly build:

{{{appliance-creator -n spacewalk --config spacewalk.ks}}}

5. Go have a cup of coffee. Better yet, run Step 4 via cron in the middle of the night.

6. Run your new virtualized image!

{{{virt-image spacewalk.xml}}}

Ultimately, I'd like to be able to see a tinderbox running this process to test things like deps issues, install time issues, and so forth.