On 02/06/2012 10:58 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: > Cole -- > > What's the workaround to auto-start Xen PV's? (or is there not a way?) > > Seems like we could just implement this however needed (if xenpv⊠do this > insteadâŠ), if virtinstall won't do it for us. >
The autostarting code could just be conditionally enabled if virt-install is new enough (just a grep of the help output) so that's not the issue. The issue is that current koan code manually passed a kernel + initrd for the PV guest to boot. That's the only install scenario for PV guests AFAICT. And this is only available via the virt-install in a version newer than what's in RHEL5. The workaround could be to make PV installs work like qcreate install_location installs, which is basically the same as direct kernel/initrd boot but you rely on virt-install to pull the kernel/initrd from the install tree. Since cobbler tracks this info it would probably 'just work' with a tiny patch but someone would need to test. And this has been supported on virt-install command line since probably rhel5.1 Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
