[Libguestfs] virt-builder and SimpleStreams

[Pino Toscano]

On Thursday 21 April 2016 10:48:24 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:26:49AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 April 2016 19:01:23 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > Pino, do you remember what the missing data was that prevents
> > > virt-builder from working properly with SimpleStreams?
> > > 
> > > IIRC it was the target (expanded) size of the image, as it means we
> > > don't know during the planning stage if we will need to resize the
> > > image.
> > 
> > Almost: if no --size is specified for virt-builder, then the template
> > is used as-is; when specifying --size, there is a size check to error
> > out on shrinking, and to pass the right size to virt-resize.
> > 
> > Currently we use the "size" (which represents the size of the image)
> > also as size of the image: this implies that the shrinking check won't
> > actually work properly, causing a failure.
> > 
> > We also miss the information about the partition to expand, so
> > virt-resize merely adds a new empty partition at the end to fill the
> > extra space.
> 
> OK so let's decide unilaterally on some fields.

I will contact Scott Moser first (the author of SimpleStreams), to know
whether these can be allowed (and possibly added in other repositories).

-- 
Pino Toscano
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