KIWI Image System

KIWI is an image system that provides a complete operating system image
solution for Linux supported hardware platforms as well as for virtualisation
systems like Xen, VMWare, etc.

Marcus Schaefer just released (july 9) version 2.54 of the KIWI Image System Cookbook.

KIWI in a nutshell:

• Command-line appliance creator
• output many diffrent formats
• Powerful, scriptable
• Open Source (GPL)

openSUSE wiki (kiwi)





















Based on the KIWI backend, Nat's team is working on SUSE Studio:

• Web-based appliance creator (based on KIWI)
  
• Easy and fast
• Community marketplace
  

You can sign-up for the alpha version here.

Nat: Virtual Appliances

If you haven't seen Nat's keynote presentation about Virtual Appliances, It's worth it.

See Nat's presentation on Linuxtag 2008

Physical Distribution (pDistro), Virtual Distribution (vDistro), Just-enough Operating System JeOS "Juice", SUSE Studio, Kiwi (command-line appliance creator)

Lime JeOS - LInux Minimal Edition Just Enough Operating System


vDistro - Application stack
Application specific tuning, security and fault tolerance
Tailored for application stack, able to run on any pDistro
software stack: kernel virtual drivers, operating system configuration, application(s) libraries

pDistro - Hardware specific
hardware specific tuning
distribution specialized for
specific physical hardware
software stack: hypervisor, system drivers, kernel, management agents



http://www.novell.com/linux/appliance/







Nat Friedan, Novell, suse, opensuse, virtualization, virtualisation, v-distro, vdistro, p-distro, pdistro, limeJeOS, lime jeos