On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 7:07 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 06:57:07AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 6:40 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 11:56:32AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore via devel wrote:
> > > > In my case, I have Network Manager config files included in my initrd
> > > > and bootargs to bring up the network so that I get automatic disk
> > > > decryption while on my home network, and prompted for a password when
> > > > I am not at home. I think this a reasonable enough use case it should
> > > > be considered in the long term plan. There was an effort many years
> > > > ago that built the initramfs with the kernel, it was abandoned due to
> > > > not being able to guarantee sources for the binaries in the initramfs,
> > > > trying to dig up the details I am having trouble finding it, but legal
> > > > blocked it there is a reference to it in an old FESCo meeting
> > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-February/178220.html.
> > >
> > > I can't see any legal problem with source provision for the
> > > binaries inside the initramfs. We're building the initrds and
> > > UKIs inside koji, so we have a clear record of exactly what
> > > binary RPMs went into the package, and thus have knowledge
> > > of what sources are involved. This is the same situation we
> > > already have in Fedora with libguestfs, where we're building
> > > a disk image inside Koji bundling various binaries. Or for
> > > that matter, not really different from building cloud disk
> > > images, or any other deliverable that bundles together some
> > > binaries from other RPMs and spits out some kind of image
> > > or archive.
> > >
> > > > Additionally, we should also consider
> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DracutHostOnly and the size
> > > > implications and why we moved to have kernel-core, kernel-modules, and
> > > > kernel-modules-extra for cloud and different use cases.
> > >
> > > The UKI size for a VM should not be appreciably different from the
> > > combination of the vmluinuz + locally generated initrd. The UKI
> > > will contain a few more modules, as its initrd is built to cope
> > > with Xen, VMware, HyperV + KVM[1], but this only adds a small amount
> > > over a truly minimal initrd targetting 1 hypervisor. So I don't
> > > expect the size of the UKI will be a problem.
> > >
> >
> > You need to add VirtualBox too. That's an incredibly common platform
> > for Fedora to run as a guest.
>
> That's easy enough, what kmod is typically required for disks in
> VirtualBox ?
>

I'm not sure as I don't use VirtualBox myself, but Hans de Geode would
know, since he upstreamed the guest additions some time ago...


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