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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
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* 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
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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
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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

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README.rst

Image building tools for OpenStack

diskimage-builder is a flexible suite of components for building a wide-range of disk images, filesystem images and ramdisk images for use with OpenStack.

This repository has the core functionality for building such images, both virtual and bare metal. Images are composed using elements; while fundamental elements are provided here, individual projects have the flexibility to customise the image build with their own elements.

For example:

$ DIB_RELEASE=trusty disk-image-create -o ubuntu-trusty.qcow2 vm ubuntu

will create a bootable Ubuntu Trusty based qcow2 image.

diskimage-builder is useful to anyone looking to produce customised images for deployment into clouds. These tools are the components of TripleO that are responsible for building disk images. They are also used extensively to build images for testing OpenStack itself, particularly with nodepool. Platforms supported include Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL and Fedora.

Full documentation, the source of which is in doc/source/, is published at:

Copyright

Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Copyright (c) 2012 NTT DOCOMO, INC.

All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.