[Libguestfs] [PATCH 3/5] sysprep: remove the custom kdump configurations
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Fri Sep 6 09:23:05 UTC 2013
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 04:25:07PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote:
> On 09/06/2013 04:06 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 03:52:40PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote:
> >> + kdump_config \
> >
> > Better to call this one just "kdump" ?
> >
> > However I'm unclear why anyone would want to remove kdump config in a
> > sysprep operation. Or TCP wrappers for that matter. There seems to
> > be no useful point in having virt-sysprep start to remove random
> > config files.
>
> Thought that these are most important and useful config files in a VM.
> Below is quoted from whom gave me these requirement:
> "
> Motivation
> virt-sysprep command is simple and useful command for deploying VMs.
> So, we hope its enchance.
>
> Though we know guestfish can be used for removing these files too,
> (by writing script, etc)
> currently it is not good for normal users by the following reasons.
>
> guestfish cannot handle errors appropriately.
> - When user uses interactive mode of guestfish, it may abort when
> error occurs.
> - When user uses batch mode of it, it may ignore error.
> - Its error message is too noisy (ex, when the specified file is not
> present.)
> "
How about the 'virt-sysprep --script' parameter?
http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html#script%2d
Although this uses FUSE, which is also less than ideal, it is
well-tested and the error behaviour is under user control.
Rich.
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