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

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 06:21:58PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>> 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)?
>>
>> That's the situation we've got already - we compile Xen and KVM to use
>> the rtl8139 nic since that's the best lowest-common denominator. It was
>> a barely passable approach so far, but with VirtIO it is now past its 
>> sell
>> by date and we have to key off os type/variant. If we don't then we'll
>> be limiting guests to 1/100 of the their potential performance. Not cool
>>
>>
>> Daniel
>
> Yikes :)
>
> I'll do some more manual creation tests tomorrow using the qemu 
> command line.
> Passing in the OS version is doable as we should soon have "cobbler 
> import" storing that data.
>
> Right now, it stores the name "RHEL5.2", etc, but that's not hard 
> enough to key off of.
>
> --Michael
>
>
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Ok, so friday I tried walking through this with virt-manager and chose 
the OS/variant as 2.1, and it picked the wrong network
driver there too and could not install 2.1.


--Michael