[et-mgmt-tools] Installing RHEL 2 (yes, "*2*") inside a F9 KVM VM...

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>> I'm finding that RHEL 2 (last dot release) does not seem to have a 
>>> virtual NIC of the type that Anaconda can discover.
>>>
>>> Has anyone tested EL2, and if so, should I be sending something 
>>> extra down to python virtinst for that?
>>>
>>> --Michael
>>>
>>
>> Actually I just committed some work to virtinst that may help solve
>> this issue.
>>
>> Try running qemu-kvm manually and testing out the -nic models. Try
>> 'qemu-kvm -hda /any/old/file -net nic,model=?' to see a list of the
>> available ones. See if you can find a model that works, and we can
>> trivially put it in the virtinst os database. So if someone in
>> the future tries
>>
>> virt-install --os-type linux --os-variant rhel2.1 --blah ...
>>
>> We can automatically set the correct network model.
>>
>> Also, if you already have a rhel2.1 libvirt vm that isn't
>> working, check out /var/log/libvirt/qemu/{vmname}.log to
>> see what the qemu-kvm command line libvirt is generating,
>> so you can just swap out the model, rather than trying to
>> recreate the whole qemu-kvm cl from scratch.
>>
>> - Cole
>
> Will do. (and this is something I'd like to see backported if possible.)
>
> I'm not sure how much RHEL 2 is out there, but I'd rather it be 
> running virtually than non-virtually. I'm guessing Xen works fine 
> though and that is what most folks would be using now (probably would 
> have heard of it otherwise).
>
> --Michael
>
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Strike that backport bit, no qemu in RHEL. It's all good. Will test and 
get back with that...