Qemu-nbd does not perform well with older versions of qemu due to
the lack of writeback caching mode. It also only builds qcow2 images
and there is a desire for raw image support. Finally, qemu-nbd makes
it very difficult to build images concurrently due to the somewhat
opaque nature of how it selects a /dev/nbd# device. losetup, on
the other hand, makes this process very straight forward.
Change-Id: I309fad8af4fd1e8d1720c17b65e1897a76d5e897
Co-Author: Clint Byrum <clint@fewbar.com>
This is a necessary but not complete step towards supporting Fedora and Suse
distributions. Further work is needed (e.g. to quiesce daemons on
installation).
Change-Id: If3ea6093d41a21de755db52328226b84b5a3ede6
It makes more sense for grub to be installed by the vm element, since
that is intended to produce directly bootable disk images.
Change-Id: Ic340ba9d3ec4dbeea3aed3576fc899c1424783a2
Flavour is overloaded in openstack due to it being used by nova. Element
seems to have the same feeling of combinability without using a term already
in active use in the openstack community.
Change-Id: Ia4c028d4062a8f69c66665821c94dd4bcdf06031
