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

[Robert Nelson]

Robert Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>
Ah never mind, I missed that the storage declaration is split into two 
places.
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