{"id":9287,"date":"2015-11-20T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/?p=9287"},"modified":"2015-11-20T17:42:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:42:39","slug":"introducing-the-official-icclab-linux-distro-optimized-for-simple-hypervisor-contexts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/introducing-the-official-icclab-linux-distro-optimized-for-simple-hypervisor-contexts\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the official ICCLab linux distro optimized for simple hypervisor contexts"},"content":{"rendered":"

We needed to deploy a simple hypervisor on one of our internal systems. This system was disconnected from the Internet for some particular reasons and it was surprisingly difficult to find a suitable bundled linux distribution which provided the features we needed. Ubuntu<\/a> desktop does not come with KVM<\/a>, ubuntu server does not have X, so it’s not easy\u00a0to run virt-manager<\/a> on the machine. There were no CentOS<\/a> versions that provided the right mix of capabilities; oVirt-node<\/a> was one reasonable candidate, but it only exposed a management interface which needed to be run remotely or else somehow packaged with the system. One of our colleagues is a big fan of proxmox<\/a>, but this is overkill for the simple single hypervisor case we wanted.<\/p>\n

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After a small bit of digging, we came across the relatively new roll your own distro capabiltiy provided by Suse<\/a>, called SuseStudio<\/a>. This enables you to create a specific distro with packages specific to your needs, clearly something that can be very useful in an enterprise context.<\/p>\n

In our case, we just wanted a distro with QEMU\/KVM, libvirt<\/a>, virt-manager, firefox and sshd. The tool enabled us to create a distro with these packages on top of a standard Suse distro. We were then able to download it as an install ISO (it was also possible to download other formats, including a LiveCD<\/a> option) and remote install it on our servers. It also provided other useful features including specifying network configuration a priori, message of the day and even logos if necessary.<\/p>\n

\"SuseStudio3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Packages installed in our distro on Suse Studio<\/em><\/p>\n

\"SuseStudio2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Distribution format in Suse Studio<\/em><\/p>\n

All in all, the Suse tool proved very useful for generating custom distros and enabled us to build the Official ICCLab Linux Distro available for download here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Schlagw\u00f6rter: linux<\/a>, linux distro<\/a>, linux packages<\/a>, suse<\/a>, suse studio<\/a>
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