[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-manager]: virtinst: correctly find the sles s390x kernel and initrd

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Sat Sep 12 16:42:57 UTC 2015


On 09/12/2015 12:37 PM, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:28:08AM -0600, Charles Arnold wrote:
>>>>> On 9/11/2015 at 09:59 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> wrote: 
>>> On 09/11/2015 11:41 AM, Charles Arnold wrote:
>>>> Allow virt-install to correctly find the SLES kernel/initrd on the media
>>>> when installing an s390x VM.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Charles Arnold <carnold at suse.com>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the patch. Is there a public URL/media to test this against?
>>
>> I don't think so or at least I'm not aware of a public URL.  s390 being the big
>> expensive piece of hardware that it is I doubt anyone makes it public.
> 
> Debian publishes it's s390x kernel/initrad as part of the installer:
> 
>     http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-s390x/current/images/generic/
> 

Fedora has a tree nowadays too, but it's a non-primary architecture still.

It's been on my todo list for a while to try and see if I can get some of the
esoteric archs to boot/install with virt-install + libvirt + qemu with proper
defaults...

- Cole




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