<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hugh O. Brock wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20071115141911.GF17977@redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:50:47PM -0800, Robert Nelson wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I've been trying to add support for additional para-virtual operating systems (OpenSolaris and Debian) to virt-manager. There is no problem getting the initial kernel and ramdisk, however there is no way to specify the target disk node based on the OS or distro. Also some OS's don't support the virtual frame buffer driver but there is no way to prevent the XML for it being created. I can't see how this could be done without doing some major restructuring of the code and creating a new class to encapsulate all the target specific information. Is there any plan on doing something like this? If someone were to do it, are the changes likely to be incorporated? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Hello Robert, thanks for your interest. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "specify the target disk node based on the OS or distro"? </pre> </blockquote> Virt-Manager names the target disknodes xvda, xvdb, etc. OpenSolaris requires 0, 1, 2, etc. <blockquote cite="mid:20071115141911.GF17977@redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I would have no problem with adding a checkbox to virt-manager that would have the effect of passing the --nographics flag to virtinst if you can determine a good place to do it. I don't think we want to spend a whole ton of time creating a new class to take different PV guest OSes into account, though. Having said that, have you looked at the *Installer class family in virtinst? Is there a way we could extend that to do what you need? </pre> </blockquote> I'll take another look at the Installer class and see if it can be done there. <blockquote cite="mid:20071115141911.GF17977@redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Take care, --Hugh _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com">et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>