On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:34:22PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > When I actually started investigating how to do this, I realized it is > fearsomely complicated because basically every guest type has its own > method to do this, and they even change frequently between versions > (eg. gconf -> dconf, GNOME vs KDE etc). Since the --firstboot > parameter effectively gives this capability to system administrators > (albeit they need to work out how to do it themselves), I think it may > be a good idea to invest the time making sure --firstboot is > bullet-proof, and *not* implement specific customizations like this.
The contrary argument being that we ought to do the hard work on behalf of system administrators, in case that wasn't clear. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
