Installing from Source

If you are trying to use imagefactory on a platform for which install packages do not yet exist, you may want to try manually installing from the source tree.

The following dependencies must be installed for imagefactory to function:

• Python 2.6+
• libguestfs w/ python bindings
• pycurl
• zope-interface
• libxml2
• httplib2
• paste-deploy
• oauth2
• argparse for python < 2.7

Optional packages will enable features such as syntax highlighted output and logging from multiple threads in debug output:

• faulthandler
• pygments

Each of the plugins have dependencies as well. You only need to install the dependencies for the plugins you plan to use.

• FedoraOS
  • Oz 0.7.0+
    • libvirt 0.9.7+
    • genisoimage part of cdrkit
    • mtools
    • OpenSSH client
    • libparted
    • m2crypto
    • pyparted
• RHEVM
  • ovirt-engine-sdk 3.1.0+
• EC2
  • euca2ools
  • boto 2.0+
• vSphere
  • psphere
• OpenStack
  • glance client

If you will be using a secondary imagefactory for proxied access, you'll need to install these packages:

• requests
• requests-oauth

After the dependencies have been installed, you're ready to download and install imagefactory.
NOTE: you should replace the path to site-packages below to the appropriate path for your system.

> git clone git://github.com/aeolusproject/imagefactory.git
> cd imagefactory
> sudo python ./setup.py sdist install
> cd imagefactory-plugins
> sudo python ./setup.py sdist install
> sudo mkdir /etc/imagefactory/plugins.d
> cd /etc/imagefactory/plugins.d
> for PLUGIN in `ls /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imagefactory_plugins |grep -v .py`
  do sudo ln -s -v /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imagefactory_plugins/$PLUGIN/$PLUGIN.info ./$PLUGIN.info
  done

Now you're ready to start the imagefactoryd daemon or use the imagefactory command to work with your images.