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

[Michael DeHaan]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 05:55:51PM -0400, 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
>>     
>
> I've got to imagine that the ne2k NIC wil do the job, though I'm kinda
> suprised there's no rtl8139 support.
>
>   
>> virt-install --os-type linux --os-variant rhel2.1 --blah ...
>>
>> We can automatically set the correct network model.
>>     
>
> Excellant - I assume you've got that setup to use VirtIO for F9/10
> and Ubuntu Hardy ?
>
> Daniel
>   

I'm not passing down variant now for virtinst API calls (but can 
probably do this in a future
release if the user supplies it). Is there a suggestion to just make it 
default to the compatible NIC that would
be good for all Fedora/RHEL (or are there performance issues in doing 
this or something)?

--Michael