[et-mgmt-tools] Virt-Manager: Supporting additional para-virtual OS's

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 09:19 -0500, Hugh O. Brock wrote:
> I would have no problem with adding a checkbox to virt-manager that
> would have the effect of passing the --nographics flag to virtinst if
> you can determine a good place to do it. I don't think we want to
> spend a whole ton of time creating a new class to take different PV
> guest OSes into account, though. Having said that, have you looked at
> the *Installer class family in virtinst? Is there a way we could
> extend that to do what you need?

Another route (though one that takes more effort), is to base install on
virt-image metadata - the idea is that we would ship stock virt-image
files for installable OS's; those files would contain the salient bits
about an OS (such as APIC/ACPI, whether to enable a graphics console,
kernel cmdline for pv) virt-manager would have to modify those files a
little before passing them off to virt-image, mostly to put things like
the ISO location and path to the root disk in.

David