On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 08:05, Michael DeHaan <michael.deh...@gmail.com>wrote:

> - RHEL5 virt-install doesn't have the --boot option. This is used to
> install
>
> xen PV guests. We could work around this by enabling install_location
> support
> for PV, which xen + virt-install have supported in RHEL5 forever. But not
> sure
> how that meshes with existing deployments getting a cobbler upgrade.
>
>
> Hmm, who is using Xen PV out there?   Speak up if you are.
>
> I'm willing to shoot it.
>
>
still using it, but we can stay with our existing koan and just not upgrade


> - RHEL5 virt-install doesn't had --disk driver_type= for qemu_driver_type
> cobbler option. Not as big of a deal, users just can't specify that value
> on
> RHEL5.
>
>
> I don't think Cobbler users ever specified anything other than the default.
>
>
>
> But in that vein, currently all koan image/qemu/xen guest creation is
> broken
> on any RHEL5 since October, due to unconditional use of guest.set_autostart
> API which isn't in RHEL5.
>
>
> That's interesting as it does seem to confirm that nobody is using it.
>
> Which seems to align with my thoughts that:
>
> (A)  people don't upgrade too often
> (B)  the field is still largely VMware :)
>
> So, yeah
>

hrmph.. well i was about to upgrade to latest in epel (my production
systems are on 2.0.11)

so is this working or broken in 2.2.1 ?
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