I've attached my proposed file, and will commit to spin-kickstarts unless there are any objections.

I fairly strongly think we should have a default "Fedora Virt Server" image. Rather than asking the internets to make it as I have in the past, recently I needed to install one so I looked at what's out there. There is: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Server But as far as I can tell have not produced any consumables (though I hope some of the other stuff like NM/network work happened!) There is also: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AOS_Spin However, I wasn't actually interested in "ultra minimal", and in any case the AOS Spin has a few serious flaws: * Disables SELinux and the firewall - this is a dealbreaker. * Uses a root password by default (this is broken) Cobbler also has various sample kickstarts, which share the above flaws. So here's what I propose. We create a spin, hosted in spin-kickstarts.ks, called "fedora-virt-server.ks", which simply reflects @base from comps, plus openssh-server. The goal of "Fedora Virt Server" is: * A default configuration suitable for virtualized use (i.e. uses full hard drive by default, etc) * Fully automated installation - absolutely no questions from anaconda. * By default set up for remote access, thus openssh-server, and the .ks file helps you set up a public SSH key (and *not* a root password). I've attached my proposed file, and will commit to spin-kickstarts unless there are any objections. Basically the idea is that you can use this kickstart file to get something you can log into remotely and bootstrap whatever else you want, whether that's mock (as it is in my case) or some web application frontend, etc. I'm hoping other people can help maintain this =) But I think this use case should be very important to Fedora, as it's very important for prominent derived operating systems. We should ensure that Fedora stays fairly minimal in this case, and use it to showcase any work on the core operating system (i.e. not the desktop).

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 03:59 +0000, Colin Walters wrote: > > So here's what I propose.  We create a spin, hosted in > spin-kickstarts.ks, called "fedora-virt-server.ks", which simply > reflects @base from comps, plus openssh-server. openssh-server is in the @core group, which means you cannot do a Fedora install without getting openssh-server.