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Complete installation of system with no user interaction from a single configuration file or a set of configuration files.
see AutoYaST2
AutoYaST2 is a system for installing one or more SUSE Linux systems automatically and without user intervention. System installations are performed using an AutoYaST profile (XML file) with installation and configuration data. That profile can be created using the configuration interface of AutoYaST2 and can be provided to YaST2 during installation in different ways.
Linux system in a file that can be used in Xen, VMWare, Amazon EC2, KVM and other virtual environments or real hardware deployment depending on the image type or configuration. Disk image is the product of KIWI if not specified otherwise.
Driver Update Disk is a mechanism to add or replace some functionality (binary, library, script) in the minimalistic system of the 1st stage of installation (inst-sys). Driver Update Disks contain the drivers needed by the installation kernel as well as the drivers which will ultimately be used by the installed system. It can be used to update or extend the installer (YaST).
Service that finds out location (including latitude and longitude coordinates, country, state and city names) from given IP address. Using such data, we could preselect locale information (language, keyboard, time zone) for user automatically.
Installation system - it the initrd image which contains the tools
needed to install a system. It includes the installer and all the
needed libraries, binaries and scripts. The system can be extended
via Driver Update Disk mechanism.
KIWI is an image build tool for Linux. You can think of an image as a Linux system in a file. Depending on the type of the image you are dealing with you have different options for using the image. KIWI is also the backend for SUSE Studio, see SUSE Studio.
Small program that runs before the actual installation program YaST is started. It is responsible for the hardware setup and will search for an installation repository. Its use is not limited to the installation. You can also use it as a boot tool for an installed system and even for an independent RAM disk–based rescue system.
A live system image is a hard disk of the system with the restriction that you can’t write data on it. All write actions take place in RAM space and therefore all changes will be lost as soon as the computer shuts down or reboots. This image can be shipped on CD/DVD or USB stick.
Download Redirector and generates cryptohashes, Metalinks, and even Torrents. MirrorBrain is an open source framework to run a content delivery network using mirror servers. It is used by http://download.opensuse.org for mirroring openSUSE distributions and updates. More info at http://mirrorbrain.org.
Open Virtualization Format, packaging standard designed to address the portability and deployment of virtualization appliances. An OVF package structure consists of a number of files: a descriptor file, optional manifest and certificate files, optional disk images, and optional resource files (such as ISO’s). The optional disk image files can be VMware vmdk’s, VirtualBox vdi, or any other supported disk image file. More info can be found at http://www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf.
Open virtual appliance or application is a single file distribution of the ovf file package, stored in the TAR format.
Disk image in the .raw format with a structure equivalent to the structure of a physical hard disk. Individual virtualization systems have specific formats to facilitate improved I/O performance to the virtual disk, represented by the image file, or additional specified virtual hard disk files. KIWI always generates a file in the .raw format.
Replacement for Novell Customer Center for customers of SUSE products, which provides reliable access to updates and other software repositories, a self-service admin interface for all relevant stakeholders, and a pleasant first-time customer experience.
Linux image creation tool with web UI where users can develop their own appliances. It comes in two versions:
- online - publicly hosted at http://www.susestudio.com
- onsite - intended for installation on a local server machine behind the firewall
It supports multiple image formats / booting options:
- Live CD / ISO image
- VMware image (find more at vmdk)
- VirtualBox
- Virtual Hard Disk (find more info at )
- Hard disk / USB image (more info at raw)
- Xen
- KVM
- OVF ( more info at ovf)
- Amazon EC2
- PXEBoot
Microsoft image format specification for virtual machine disk image.
Native format of disk image for hardware virtualizer VirtualBox from Oracle.
Disk image file format developed by VMware.