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

[Michael DeHaan]

Bryan Kearney wrote:
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> 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.
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> Is it jus ISO format, or will you support raw disk images as well?
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Disks also.