[Thincrust-devel] packaging of sparse raw disk images

[Alan Pevec]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com> wrote:

> Perry Myers wrote:
>
>> Perry Myers wrote:
>> 2. Kickstart only contains primary disk, don't create data disk until
>>   appliance deployment.
>
>
>> If option 2 can be simplified and automated by the appliance-tools then
>> this is not that big of a problem.
>>
>
> Ideally.. I could describe (2) in the virt-image.xml file and have
> virt-image do it for me.
>

virt-image XML has disk at use='scratch' which creates new empty disk image
during VM instantiation,
but you still need ACE to mkfs, create mountpoint, fstab entry etc.
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