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Welcome to snf-image's documentation!
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snf-image is a `Ganeti <http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/>`_ OS definition. It
allows Ganeti to launch instances from predefined or untrusted custom Images.
The whole process of deploying an Image onto the block device, as provided by
Ganeti, is done in complete isolation from the physical host, enhancing
robustness and security.

snf-image supports `KVM <http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page>`_ and
`Xen <http://www.xenproject.org/>`_ based Ganeti clusters.

snf-image also supports Image customization via hooks. Hooks allow for:

 * changing the password of root or arbitrary users
 * injecting files at arbitrary locations inside the filesystem, e.g., SSH keys
 * setting a custom hostname
 * re-creating SSH host keys to ensure the image uses unique keys

snf-image is being used in large scale production environments with Ganeti to
successfully deploy many major Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu/Kubuntu,
CentOS, Fedora, OpenSUSE), Windows 2008 R2 & Windows Server 2012, as well as
FreeBSD. Support for OpenBSD and NetBSD is also included with exception to
extending partitions.

The snf-image Ganeti OS Definition is released under
`GPLv2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>`_.


Contents:
^^^^^^^^^

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   architecture
   interface
   installation
   usage
   advanced

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`