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

[Robert Nelson]

David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 12:13 -0800, Robert Nelson wrote:
>   
>> I looked at virt-image but it seemed to be based on having an "already
>> installed" version of the source image.
>>     
>
> The source image would be the install media - you'd have an image.xml
> that is set to boot off the install CD and gets an additional virtual
> disk (xvda, hda, ..) that it will install into. Once the install is
> complete, you'd still need to boot the guest off its own libvirt XML.
>
>   
>> Also I didn't see any way to specify different configuration settings
>> for the "install phase" versus the "normal execution".
>>     
>
> This would only be for the install phase - virt-install/virt-image still
> need to know that they are doing an install, and generate 'normal'
> libvirt XML that the guest boots off after installation.
>
>   
>> Unfortunately neither virt-image nor virt-install provide the ability
>> to specify the target device.
>>     
>
> virt-image XML does have a mapping of disk files to target devices.
> You're right though that virt-install will just assign target devices
> based on the order in which disk files are specified.
>
> David
>
>   

The virt-image(5) man page doesn't list an option for the target 
device.  The only options listed are: file, use, size and format.

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