[et-mgmt-tools] Xen domU + koan

[Michael DeHaan]

>
> One more question (for the moment :)  From the code it appears that koan
> only creates paravirtual domU instances.  Is that correct?  If not, how
> do I get it to create a fully virtual domU instance?
>
>   

This is correct.  

koan needs to be ported over to use the same virtinst-devel python 
library that virtguest-install uses, and when that happens, it will be 
capable of doing fullvirt installs (and anything else virtinst can 
install, which can include virtualization technology other than Xen -- I 
believe QEmu is the one virt-manager is supporting now).

I've wanted to do this earlier -- though I doubt that will happen prior 
to mid March.    Should someone be feeling adventurous, patches would 
definitely be accepted.   If not, I'll get around to it when I can -- 
it's next up on the cobbler/koan feature list and should require 
modifications to koan only, not cobbler.   I'm imagining koan will take 
a "--fullvirt" flag in addition to it's "--virt" one it takes now.

The aformentioned koan change to the Xen images install location to play 
nice with SELinux should happen this week though, as I'm also due to 
release a few cobbler bugfixes and it makes sense to go ahead and 
upgrade koan at that time as well.    The only changes to koan will be 
for the path location and for sorting the output from --list-profiles.   
Both of these are already in the upstream source on et.redhat.com.

> James
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