On Monday, February 6, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 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 > > instead…), 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. > > That's also how the virt installs work for everything else in koan, including qemu/KVM. (Maybe I'm misunderstanding something?) > > 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. > > Just trying to make sure this wouldn't break anyone. The install tree location isn't actually required in Cobbler, it's only a parameter to the kickstart … Are you saying we'd have to use the install tree method *only* for Xen PV? If so, that might be an acceptable limitation… if Xen FV or qemu/KVM requires the tree to find the kernel/initrd that seems bad to me, because we deal with a lot of arbitrary distros that express install tree locations in different ways. ks_meta["tree"] gives you this if someone had ran "Cobbler import" previously. If we can avoid using that when we don't have to, that would be good… > 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 > > "it" == making autostart work for Xen PV, right? > > Thanks, > Cole > >
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