Lee Trager

We do not currently have any plans to support Arch Linux. MAAS uses [LP:Curtin](https://launchpad.net/curtin/) to perform the installation which does look it has Arch support. If you create a tgz...

No you'd need to create a tar.gz of the contents of an installed system. MAAS/Curtin don't run the OS installer it formats the disks and extracts the tar over the...

@dsever MAAS supports ephemeral deployments but only for Ubuntu. The easiest way to do that is by deleting all disks from the machine and then deploying whatever Ubuntu version you...

Thanks for the patch! Do you know if these changes are compatible with vCenter 6? If not we need to modify this so it works with vCenter 6 and 7.

We do not have any plans to support Debian currently. One of the issues MAAS has with Debian is MAAS always provides apt repository configuration. MAAS only supports configuring Ubuntu...

Packer simply automates the official OS installation process and creates a MAAS compatible image. CentOS, RHEL, and VMware all use a kickstart file to describe how the installation is performed....

qemu supports this directly with the -kernel, -initrd, and -append command line options. You don't need to use iPXE as qemu will boot directly into the kernel when specified. Adding...