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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:01:43AM -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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)?

It requires corresponding support in libvirt (next pending release) and
Xen (next pending release). This will all be included from Fedora 9, via
the forthcoming libvirt release, and the Xen bits are already backported.

   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenFullvirtKernelBoot

Dan.
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