[et-mgmt-tools] Re: strange virt-install/koan issue

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Jul 16 15:35:08 UTC 2008


Brenton Leanhardt wrote:
>> Anyone know how the kernels under /var/lib/libvirt/boot get created?
>> The xml created by koan/virt-install (attached in my previous email)
>> references a kernel and initrd that doesn't exist on my filesystem.
> 
> Should anyone care, that directory is the "scratchdir" used for kvm
> installs.  The kernels and initrd are only used temporarily and are
> unlinked once the install starts.  I don't know why the .treeinfo
> files aren't removed.
> 

The lack of treeinfo file remove is a bug that is fixed upstream,
just hasn't made it into a release yet.

- Cole




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