[Ovirt-devel] Details about pending cobbler image support & ovirt integration

[Bryan Kearney]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> David Lutterkort wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 17:48 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>  
>>> David Lutterkort wrote:
>>>    
>>>> It would be much simpler for VM images to tell cobbler to add an
>>>> image.xml; all the parameters above are listed in that, and adding a VM
>>>> image to a cobbler server would be as simple as
>>>>                 # cobbler image add /foo/bar/image.xml
>>>>         
>>> That would be doable for virt-image cloning where we have a way to 
>>> source it from.   For ISO installs, admins generally don't like to 
>>> create
>>> XML, so as with virt-install, there needs to be a way to enter it.
>>>     
>>
>> So we'd have a command line tool that basically templates a few values
>> into a stock image.xml file ?
>>   
> 
> Right now I have it working using Cobbler objects to be consistent.  
> These ISO installs
> are not much different from what koan does now.  Hardly anything changes 
> but the install
> source.

Is it jus ISO format, or will you support raw disk images as well?