[Ovirt-devel] Re: [PATCH appliance] Move appliance creation out of spec file to Makefile

[Perry Myers]

Alan Pevec wrote:
> Perry Myers wrote:
>> +    sudo su - -c "cd $(PWD) && appliance-creator --config 
>> $(PACKAGE).ks \
>> +        --name $(PACKAGE) -f $(DISK_FMT) -p $(PKG_FMT) -d -v \
>> +        --tmpdir='$(OVIRT_CACHE_DIR)/$(PACKAGE)-tmp' \
>> +        --cache='$(OVIRT_CACHE_DIR)/yum' \
>> +        --vmem=768"
> 
> Resulting appliance doesn't use virtio for neither NIC or disk.
> AFAICT image XML doesn't carry info about NIC/disk model and I don't see 
> the option to specify virtio as virt-image parameter. Any ideas?
> Running the appliance w/o virtio would bring a performance regression.

That doesn't affect this patch exactly, but does affect the patch where I 
refactor create-ovirt-appliance to use virt-image instead of XML templates.

I could switch from virt-image to virt-install in the short term until 
virt-image/appliance-creator fixes virtio situation.

Perry

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