Thank you very much for your suggestion. JeOS sounds like a very good option.<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Florian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:27 AM,  <span dir="ltr"><Carsten.Friedrich@csiro.au></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Hi Florian,<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I use JEOS (<a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ubuntu_JeOS" target="_blank">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ubuntu_JeOS</a>). With qcow2 format this has a very small footprint, boots quickly and works very well with OpenNebula. JeOS optionally supports ACPI (you have to specify the corresponding package to be included when you build the image).<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">E.g:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">vmbuilder kvm ubuntu -v --debug --suite=lucid --flavour=virtual --iso=ubuntu.iso<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> --mirror=<yourMirror> -o --ip=dhcp --firstboot=/home/carsten/jeo<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">s/boot.sh --part=vmbuilder_noswap.partition <u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">--addpkg=vim-nox --addpkg=unattended-upgrades --addpkg=acpid --addpkg=<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">openssh-server -a amd64 <u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">                                                                                                                                                                                                                               <u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Carsten<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:.5pt;border-collapse:collapse">

<tbody><tr><td width="79" valign="top" style="width:58.9pt;padding:0cm .5pt 0cm .5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><a href="http://www.csiro.au/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="69" height="89" src="cid:image001.gif@01CC5BF6.94CC2130" alt="cid:387141907@30042010-37FB"></span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red"><u></u><u></u></span></p>

</td><td width="315" style="width:236.55pt;padding:0cm .5pt 0cm .5pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#548DD4">Carsten Friedrich</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#548DD4"><u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#548DD4">Research Team leader<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#548DD4">ICT Centre, GPO Box 664,Canberra, ACT 2601<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#548DD4">Phone: <a href="tel:%2B61%202%206216%207019" value="+61262167019" target="_blank">+61 2 6216 7019</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">

<span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#548DD4">Email: <a href="mailto:Carsten.Friedrich@csiro.au" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Carsten.Friedrich@csiro.au</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#548DD4">Web:   <a href="http://www.csiro.au/org/ICT.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">http://www.csiro.au/org/ICT.html</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue"><u></u><u></u></span></p>

</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:users-bounces@lists.opennebula.org" target="_blank">users-bounces@lists.opennebula.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:users-bounces@lists.opennebula.org" target="_blank">users-bounces@lists.opennebula.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Florin Antonescu<br>

<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 16 August 2011 0:54<br><b>To:</b> OpenNebula-users<br><b>Subject:</b> [one-users] ACPI-enabled VM image (with small footprint)<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Can someone give me a hint about an ACPI-enabled Linux variant with a very small footprint? I understand that the provided TTY LInux is not ACPI enabled and for this reason it cannot be live-migrated or shutdown. Or, is it possible to install ACPI support in TTY Linux?<u></u><u></u></p>

<div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Florian<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>