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Author SHA1 Message Date
Kevin TIBI
9c769ff9ba Fix typo doc
Change-Id: I93bf21d2fb1f96c2e366b3d41af32b914350d1ce
2018-02-12 14:26:29 +01:00
Zhiguo Deng
271dc36f33 Add zipl element as s390x architecture bootloader
s390x architecture uses zipl as bootloader. When used in combination
with the vm element it replaces the existing bootloader element.
It's mandatory for s390x vm images.

Use cases
---------

* Allow users to create s390x images that run on nova with s390x
  libvirt/kvm backend
* Building nodepool images for s390x third party CI

Supported Distros
-----------------
The following listing shows all Distros that officially support
s390x and how those Distros are supported in DIB with this patch.

* SLES - not supported (SLES is not supported in DIB)
* RHEL - not suppoprted (RHEL is not supported as KVM guest on s390x,
                         therefore there's no rhel7 qcow image for s390x available
                         like it is for other archictectures)
* Ubuntu - supported

Ubuntu images can for example be built using the following commands:

  $ disk-image-create ubuntu-minimal zipl vm
  $ disk-image-create ubuntu-minimal zipl
  $ disk-image-create ubuntu zipl vm

Testing
-------

Cross architecture building of s390x images is not supported so far.

The plan is to set up a ThirdParty CI that builds the image for s390x and
provides the logs.

Co-Authored-By: Andreas Scheuring <andreas.scheuring@de.ibm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Holger Smolinsky <holger@smolinski.name>
Co-Authored-By: Zhiguo Deng <bjzgdeng@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Arne Recknagel <arne.recknagel@hotmail.com>

Closes-Bug: #1730641

Change-Id: I576e7edda68da12e97c60af38f457915efe7b934
2017-11-07 17:19:27 +01:00
Yolanda Robla
b84997036d Mention the need of dracut-regenerate element
When using volumes, booting from them will need that the ramdisk
image used has support for that. In case the lvm module is not
included, mention the need of adding dracut-regenerate in the
elements that are needed.

Change-Id: I6e1f618dcfc5ef3be01c83904ffe6dd33db72bb7
Partially-Fixes-Bug: #1715686
2017-09-11 14:25:00 +02:00
Yolanda Robla
c2dc3dc78e LVM support for dib-block-device
This provides a basic LVM support to dib-block-device.

Co-Authored-By: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com>

Change-Id: Ibd624d9f95ee68b20a15891f639ddd5b3188cdf9
2017-08-24 16:22:56 +10:00
Amrith Kumar
52faa0e1d9 Allow users to specify partition type in the MBR PTE
The MBR Partition Table Entry (PTE) allows one to specify many
possible partition types and one of the benefits of this is being able
to specify the CHS variant or the LBA variant.

By default, LBA only creates partitions of type 0x83 (of course,
that's only because the documentation doesn't tell you how to make it
do anything else).

I will take up Ian's suggestion in patch set 2 for a more rigorous
test in an independent patch set.

Change-Id: If3068535980eac2e58d4025444c65147a8c7fedc
Closes-Bug:#1703352
2017-07-29 06:34:25 -04:00
Tony Breeds
7aa6a69983 [doc] Add some notes about PowerPC Architecture names
Change-Id: I58eb3e442344bbbcf7c5d71c13688baaacd70105
2017-06-27 10:27:10 +10:00
Ian Wienand
00da1982ce Add a more generic tree->graph parser
This moves to a more generic config parser that doesn't have plugins
parsing part of the tree.

I understand why it ended up that way; we have "partitions" key which
has special semantics compared to others keys and there was a desire
to keep it isolated from core tree->graph code.  But this isn't really
isolated; you have to reverse-engineer several module-crossing
boundaries, extras classes and repetitive recursive functions.

Ultimately, plugins should have access to the node graph, but not
participate in configuration parsing.  This way we ensure that plugins
can't invent new methods of configuration parsing.

Note: unit tests produce the same tree -> graph conversion as the old
method.  i.e. this is not intended to have a functional change.

Change-Id: I8a5d62a076a5a50597f2f1df3a8615afba6dadb2
2017-05-26 10:13:14 +10:00
Andreas Florath
e4e23897a1 Refactor: block-device filesystem creation, mount and fstab
This patch finalizes the block device refactoring.  It moves the three
remaining levels (filesystem creation, mount and fstab handling) into
the new python module.

Now it is possible to use any number of disk images, any number of
partitions and used them mounted to different directories.

Notes:

 * unmount_dir : modified to only unmount the subdirs mounted by
   mount_proc_sys_dev().  dib-block-device unmounts
   $TMP_MOUNT_PATH/mnt (see I85e01f3898d3c043071de5fad82307cb091a64a9)

Change-Id: I592c0b1329409307197460cfa8fd69798013f1f8
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <andreas@florath.net>
Closes-Bug: #1664924
2017-05-12 13:52:02 +02:00
Yolanda Robla
c3dda92b67 Refactor documentation on image creation
Add the bits of documentation that talk about image creation
at the scope of level 1.
This is a partial refactor of change
I592c0b1329409307197460cfa8fd69798013f1f8

Change-Id: I2619c9ebf3ecfeea67fe9063a169d8324d7ffdf2
Co-Authored-By: Andreas Florath <andreas@florath.net>
2017-05-05 17:29:42 +00:00
Yolanda Robla
340451ea00 Improve documentation for image creation
Add the tree-like vs complete digraph configuration
for images. This is a partial refactor from
I3600c6a3d663c697b59d91bd3fbb5e408af345e4

Change-Id: Ia7a8321e63d59771fe47d8e262b9aacffd60d8d9
Co-Authored-By: Andreas Florath <andreas@florath.net>
2017-05-01 15:22:35 +00:00
Ian Wienand
fea6ab1624 Use sphinx warning-is-error
Sphix 1.5 (I9e7261c4124b71eeb6bddd9e21747b61bbdc16fa) includes
"warning-is-error" which supersedes pbr's warnerrors.  Enable this and
fix up the resulting failures

 - trailing lines for lists in element_deps directive
 - missing README's that are linked
 - syntax error and highlighting in building instructions

Change-Id: I6549551b4a9bf47076c9811a7a38a666cbea2a50
2017-03-14 14:49:49 +11:00
Andreas Florath
a8953dd277 block-device: change top level config from dict to list
With the old configuration structure it was only possible
to use one image and one partition layout.  The new
block-device configuration uses a list at top level;
therefore it is possible to use multiple instances
of each element type.

Change-Id: I9db4327486b676887d6ce09609994116dbebfc89
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <andreas@florath.net>
2017-02-03 20:15:39 +00:00
Ian Wienand
adf39c52cf Release 1.21.1
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Merge tag '1.26.1' into merge-branch

Release 1.21.1

Change-Id: Ib9eb3dd1d384fc5b6a9846608216e056c57a173a
2017-02-02 20:36:23 +11:00
Ian Wienand
bfca36c772 Release 1.25.2
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Release 1.25.2

Change-Id: I698bcf2e82117bd81649cd065a7af5cac85990c7
2017-02-02 11:20:00 +11:00
Andreas Florath
ec7f56c1b2 Refactor: block-device handling (partitioning)
During the creation of a disk image (e.g. for a VM), there is the need
to create, setup, configure and afterwards detach some kind of storage
where the newly installed OS can be copied to or directly installed
in.

This patch implements partitioning handling.

Change-Id: I0ca6a4ae3a2684d473b44e5f332ee4225ee30f8c
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <andreas@florath.net>
2017-01-24 19:59:10 +00:00
Tristan Cacqueray
9d13084c41 Add squashfs output image format
The squashfs format brings a couple of advantages over the other
formats. Image is often an order of magnitude smaller and it can
be used natively, either as an initrd, either with loop mount.

Change-Id: If72940b0c4dafb2504c52dd0429a8eb3f8305751
2016-12-19 07:21:39 +00:00
Paul Belanger
da41ee6012 Add output image format tgz support
We now support tgz (tar.gz) as an output format.

Change-Id: Iadec92f2f96c3f904f28bd49f87ffc7d48ef7bd7
Signed-off-by: Paul Belanger <pabelanger@redhat.com>
2016-12-17 16:41:42 -05:00
Ian Wienand
5e2330d89c Put MKFS_OPTS after filesystem type
mkfs's arguments are

 mkfs [options] [-t type] [fs-options] device [size]

So it seems our MKFS_OPTS are really supposed to be fs-options, rather
than options to mkfs itself.

Why didn't we notice?  It's quite a trap -- mkfs.ext2 has a "-t"
option, so when we're calling

 $ mkfs -i 4096 ... -t ext4 ...

We actually just fall-back to the default from the mkfs wrapper which
is mkfs.ext2 which works!  But when you make that, say, xfs, we're not
calling the right wrapper at all.

Also update documentation

Closes-Bug: #1648287
Change-Id: I3ea5807088ab361bd9c235c07fb1553fbaf9178b
2016-12-09 07:22:38 +11:00
Andreas Florath
3d48a528c1 Refactor: block-device handling (local loop)
Block device handling can be somewhat complex - especially
when taking things like md, lvm or encryption into account.

This patch factors out the creation and deletion of the local
loop image device handling into a python library.

The main propose of this patch is to implement the needed
infrastructure.  Based on this, more advanced functions can be added.
Example: (advanced) partitioning, LVM, handling different boot
scenarios (BIOS, UEFI, ...), possibility of handling multiple images
(local loop image, iSCSI, physical hard disk, ...), handling of
different filesystems for different partitions / LVs.

Change-Id: Ib626b36a00f8a5dc3dbde8df3e2619a2438eaaf1
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <andreas@florath.net>
2016-09-08 04:31:01 +00:00
Isaac Beckman
24d1527111 Move speedup section to image building guide
speedup section explains  the user how to sppedup image build by using
tmpfs. The  correct user guide to have this section, is the user guide
about image building rather than the installation user guide.

Change-Id: I96b90bd79df53db4f926a928ae3c86b888315230
2016-01-18 07:02:00 +00:00
Abel Lopez
5e9c451d5f Document byte-to-inode ratio
End user docs would benefit from a section about the byte-to-inode
ratio, and why it's set the way it is. This update explains why
and how to manipulate the ratio depending on the intended use.

Change-Id: Iffb5ef6f4c7c74f4aa6e25912d4991d7a611c8fe
Closes-bug: 1512841
2015-12-16 13:58:17 -08:00
Gregory Haynes
486f3c01eb Add documentation of output formats for users
A blurb on output formats is useful for our users.

Change-Id: Iffa5036a84c1500ccb38cd3edb258ddbf5148a3e
2015-08-02 23:19:39 -07:00
Gregory Haynes
360033027f Create a user guide
Our docs are very developer focused. Lets create a separate user guide
to help new users get started.

Change-Id: I8a03920e6d3306dd0405177875ea55ccb4b40fea
2015-04-01 19:51:08 +00:00