Comment 11 for bug 993010

Hi Stephen,

Please consider also supporting RHEL 5. There are many uses cases for
RHEL 5, including the >100,000 machines on the Large Hadron Collider
Computing grid using Scientific Linux 5, based on RHEL 5.

Cheers

Martin

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Stephen Gordon <email address hidden> wrote:
> After experimenting some more and with some input from some of the
> developers it looks like if I restrict myself to "tools available in
> EL6" the easiest way is to use virt-install. I need to do some further
> testing of the kickstart I have been given but it's looking promising.
>
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> Title:
> No reliable documentation on how to build RedHat flavoured VMS
>
> Status in OpenStack Manuals:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> We have spent the 6 months attempting to build reliable Scientific
> Linux 5.* instances for openstack. This has been a very frustrating
> experience involving much trial and error. It would help enormously if
> the there was a document describing how to do this with tools
> available to standard redhat flavoured linux distributions.
>
> It was really very surprising that the this entirely mainstream
> distribution did not have such documentation.
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