Question for smbios

[David]

Thanks Pavel! Time to update the host to debian 10. I didn't realize it was
that old. I will respond back later if there are any issues.

Thanks for looking into it deeply. I will watch out for python 3, but it
probably won't cause me much trouble and will feel good to get up to date.

Kind regards,
David


On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 2:46 AM Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:49:37AM -0500, David wrote:
> > I am reposting this because it's been 2 or 3 weeks.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Hopefully this is the right place to send a question like this...
> >
> > I'm attempting to automate creation of VMs using virt-install and a
> > cloud-init disk image. To get this to work, I need to specify the
> location
> > of the cloud-init configs by passing smbios key/value pairs.
> >
> > Normally, -smbios is provided to qemu to do this. With virt-install, the
> > Internet says I should use --sysinfo. However, --sysinfo (as well as
> > --qemu-comandline) is reported as an invalid command flag, and it is not
> > present when I look at man virt-install and virt-install --help.
> >
> > I am hoping someone on the list knows why this isn't working or can
> explain
> > how I might provide the arguments to qemu. The host is Debian 9. It is
> > up-to-date as far as package versions are concerned, as much as Debian 9
> > can be. I can't find any indication about why the arguments would have
> been
> > taken away.
>
> Hi,
>
> Unfortunately for you it was not taken away as it was not introduced in
> the old version available in Debian 9. Based on Debian packages there is
> virt-manager 1.4.0 which is about 4 years old.
>
> Looking at virt-manager code-base Debian 9 just missed the --sysinfo
> and --qemu-commandline arguments as both were introduced in 1.4.1.
>
> I checked that there is no virt-manager in stretch-backports so your
> options are probably update to current stable (Debian 10) or get newer
> virt-manager from upstream. Just a not to keep in mind, virt-manager
> 1.5.0 is the last python-2 based version and since virt-manager 2.0.0 we
> support only python-3.
>
> Pavel
>
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