[et-mgmt-tools] Xen domU + koan

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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).
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> 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.

Actually, what needs to happen is there's a parameter on the profile 
already for paravirt -- and it's currently being ignored.    koan needs 
to start paying attention to that parameter.   So you would not get a 
new koan parameter, but rather would define the profile differently in 
cobbler.    Anyhow, easy enough :)

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> 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.
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>> James
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