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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:09:54PM -0500, 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.
> >>>

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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)?

No defined location for other hypervisors yet. 

> 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.

The Xen RPM does own this directory.

> It would be nice if SELinux just cared about, say, context instead of 
> paths in this case :)

SELinux does only care about context. It is the policy which says which
paths map to which contexts, and in current policy we have the mapping
from xen_image_t going to /var/lib/xen/images.

Dan.
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