[Fedora-xen] Possible to skip reboot with virt-install?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:19:34PM -0700, David Mueller wrote:
> Is it possible to tell virt-install to skip the reboot it does after
> completing the OS install to a guest?  I'm writing some shell scripts
> to automate creating and running of virtual machines, and the reboot
> after the install is just slowing things down as I have to wait for it
> to boot up, then shut it down before I can continue.
> 
> I'm using a customized Fedora 7 installer creating using Revisor and a
> kickstart file, so if it's a change I need to do there (thinking
> perhaps that the command to restart rather than shut down is coming
> from the guest) I can.  I noticed that using virt-manager, when the
> install finished and I hit restart, the guest simply shut down.

This capability was supposed to be included in the 0.300.0 release, adding
a --noreboot flag. But we screwed up and forgot to push the changeset in
question to the upstream repo. I'll add it as a patch to the next Fedora
RPM we release.


Dan.
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