[et-mgmt-tools] where's defined the output directory?

[Hugh Brock]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> John.Sanabria at ece.uprm.edu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i already built virtual boxes with koan. Question, there exist a 
>> parameter
>> where can specify the directory where virtual image will be located? I
>> assume by default is /var/lib/virtimages
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> PD: Sorry, i'm not python programmer, but i did a grep in directory
>> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler for "virtimages" word and i 
>> can't
>> found anything.
>>
>>
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>>    |        ||     (_        |
>>    |        ||       |       |
>>    |        ||       |       |
>>    |        ||       /\   ..--
>>    '--------''   /\  ||-''    \
>>       /   \      \ \//   ,,   \---.
>>    .---------.    \./ |~| /__\  \  |
>> ___|_________|__|""-.___ / ||   |  |
>> |               | .-----'  ||   |  |
>> |               |CC.-----.      |  |
>> |               |  '-----'      |  |-ABG
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>>
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> 
> Currently this is hardcoded in koan's source to /var/lib/virtimages. 
> Adding a /var/lib/virtimages directory symlink in your kickstart's %post 
> when provisioning the dom0's might be a good idea, if you wanted to use 
> storage not on /var.    Or virtimages could be a mount point... either way.
> 
> I'll look into adding some options for this.
> --Michael

If you're referring to Xen filesystem images, they should really go in 
/var/lib/xen/images to keep selinux from complaining. Does anyone know 
if there's a consensus directory for virtual filesystem images for for 
other hypervisors (qemu, kvm)?

--Hugh

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