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

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Hugh Brock wrote:
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                     (`'`'`'`'`)
>>>>                      |       |
>>>>                      |       |
>>>>                      |       |
>>>>     -----..        (()----   |
>>>>    |        ||     (_        |
>>>>    |        ||       |       |
>>>>    |        ||       |       |
>>>>    |        ||       /\   ..--
>>>>    '--------''   /\  ||-''    \
>>>>       /   \      \ \//   ,,   \---.
>>>>    .---------.    \./ |~| /__\  \  |
>>>> ___|_________|__|""-.___ / ||   |  |
>>>> |               | .-----'  ||   |  |
>>>> |               |CC.-----.      |  |
>>>> |               |  '-----'      |  |-ABG
>>>>                                 |  |
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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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
>>
>
> Trueness, I will make it so.   I think I had /var/lib/xen[/|_]images 
> at one point also but decided against it given that we thought xen 
> itself owned that path.
>
> It would be nice if SELinux just cared about, say, context instead of 
> paths in this case :)
Actually you can mount with different SELinux context's, so that's my fault.

I'll probably just add a flag for koan to do an override on the save 
location.
>
> --Michael
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