Hi there, Just about done with the virt-install changes to support xVM for AI, but I've a question about whether there are plans for a bootable AI cd/dvd image.
Right now, virt-install takes a -l argument to specify the location of the installation media (whatever the OS) For AI, this really means just the media used to bootstrap the installing guest, after which we grab install manifests, contact IPS servers, etc. So I'm taking this to be the install server URL eg. http://foo:5555/path/to/image I then reuse that URL when constructing the kernel boot arguments passed into the PV guest: "-B install_media=http://foo:5555/path/to/image"; However, I'm also adding a check to see if that -l option is not a URL, in which case I'm assuming we're booting the AI client from a local CD image (which I assume doesn't exist yet), and would have no need to pull the .zlib files over the network. Does that make sense, or would you guys envisage still downloading those files should a local CD/DVD boot feature become available? cheers, tim
