[fedora-virt] what about adding extra pkgs to Virtualization yum group?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Tue Apr 21 09:18:48 UTC 2009


On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:33:51 +0100
> From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> To: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> Cc: Fedora Virtualization Mailing List <fedora-virt at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] what about adding extra pkgs to Virtualization yum
>     group?
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:28:41PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > # virt-dmesg
> > Fatal error: exception Failure("f1164: use -W to define word size for this image")
> > #
> >
> >   it then went on to demand i specify the architecture,
> > endianness, kernel text address, etc.  is there some reason it
> > can't figure that out?
>
> Yes at the moment you have to specify all that, but the new version
> will autodetect it all from the image.

  excellent, thanks for clearing that up.

rday

p.s.  i'm not *trying* to be picky, pedantic and anal-retentive about
every gruesome detail.  i am merely succeeding.

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