[virt-tools-list] No os-variant value for ubuntu 12.10?

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Jan 24 23:19:47 UTC 2013


On 01/19/2013 01:34 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Hello all:
> 
> I am trying to set up a Ubuntu 12.10 guest on my CentOS 6.3
> server running KVM.
> 
> When I use virt-install --os-variant list, the latest version of
> Ubuntu listed is 11.10 even though I did a yum update of my
> server just now.
> 
> Is there a delay in getting the latest version of Ubuntu into
> virt-install?
> 
> Do I need to install Ubuntu 11.10 or can I use on of the other
> values and install a 12.10 guest?
> 

As others have mentioned, using the latest ubuntu variant will be functionally
identical. Soonish we will be able to drop this code and just use libosinfo,
but until then I'd take a patch to add the latest ubuntu variant.

Thanks,
Cole




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