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

[Robert Nelson]

David Lutterkort wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

I looked at virt-image but it seemed to be based on having an "already 
installed" version of the source image.

Also I didn't see any way to specify different configuration settings 
for the "install phase" versus the "normal execution".

Unfortunately neither virt-image nor virt-install provide the ability to 
specify the target device.

Both Libvirt's XML and xen's xmdomain.cfg formats do provide it.

> David
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