[et-mgmt-tools] virt-manager allows fully virt install from kernel/initrd

[Michael DeHaan]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Traditionally paravirt Xen installs only supported NFS/FTP/HTTP based network
> installs due to the requirement to use a kernel/initrd, while fullvirt Xen
> installs only spported ISO/CDROM due to requirement to boot from CDROM.
>
> With the introduction of KVM though, it became possible to install fullyvirt
> guests off a NFS/FTP/HTTP tree directly in same manner as paravirt. Xen also
> recently gained this capability for fullvirt guests.
>
> Thus I have just pushed changes to virt-manager to allow fullyvirt install
> to be performed using NFS/FTP/HTTP sources, in addition to existing option
> of doing ISO/CDROM installs. 
>
> http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=ea6903353938
>
> Dan.
>   

Dan,

Cool. I take it this is the features-in-upstream announcement?

When is this going to be available for the various distros (so I can 
possibly obsolete the Xen PXE install method for Linux-FV)?

--Michael