Hi eucalyptus growers,
Motivated by the good press about the eucalyptus integration into ubuntu jaunty we tried to backport to hardy (8.04 LTS), because our machines here run hardy, and will continue to do so for some time. This didn't succeed at the first attempt due to missing packages and some package conflict. Since we know next-to-nothing yet about eucalyptus we gave up.
Instead we post a message here and ask if you though backporting to hardy?
Cheer, Stefan
Judging by the significant effort that was required to package up Eucalyptus for jaunty, we are guessing that backporting will involve non-trivial amount of work. Of course, we'd love to support every possible distro, but our resources don't allow for that. We'll think about hardy. In the meantime, I would encourage you to look into source-code based install, which we'd like to think isn't that bad.
Aha, we'll have a look into install from source a la debian with apt-get source -b on hardy. Meanwhile, we run jaunty images with eucalyptus via virtualbox on our hardy boxes for tests. However, doing virtualisation within virtualisation could cause problems ...