Machine/template-fedora13

Guest installation

qemu-img create -f qcow2 /srv/vm/template-fedora13.qcow2 10G
virt-install -v --accelerate --nographics -x console=ttyS0,115200 \
   --name template-fedora13 --vcpus=4 --ram $((1*1024)) \
   --os-type=linux --os-variant=fedora13 \
   --network bridge:br0 \
   --disk /srv/vm/template-fedora13.qcow2 \
   --location http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/

• In Anaconda, select graphical installation over vnc
• Layout the disk with a single primary partition for root
• In package selection, choose "minimal system"

Initial configuration

At the end of installation, boot with:

virsh start --console template-fedora13

• Set ssh keys of Sugar Labs sysadmins:

mkdir ~/.ssh
cat >>~/.ssh/authorized_keys
paste keys

• Configure the SSH daemon:

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  PermitRootLogin yes
  PermitEmptyPasswords no
  PasswordAuthentication no
service sshd restart
setsebool -P ssh_sysadm_login on

• Put selinux in permissive mode (while we patiently wait for the day in which selinux in Fedora will become sort of usable out of the box without major tweaks):

vi /etc/sysconfig/selinux

• Remove root password (this lets us login from the console with no password):

vipw -s

• Enable traditional networking (no NetworkManager nonsense):

chkconfig network on
start network

• Create sysadmin accounts:

mkdir /etc/skel/.ssh
useradd -c "Bernie Innocenti" -m bernie
cat >>/home/bernie/.ssh/authorized_keys
chown -R bernie:bernie /home/bernie/.ssh
...

• Add users to wheel group (no better way in Fedora?):

vigr

• Uncomment "%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" line in sudoers

visudo

ssh root@template-fedora13.sugarlabs.org

• Install a bunch of useful rpms:

yum install etckeeper bash-completion git-core strace munin-node duplicity postfix vim devtodo man

• TODO: See Sysadmin/Template_virtual_machine for missing configuration steps