Hi, > 1. Is it possible to add to the virt-p2v-make-disk program a parameter > > to add kernel parameters? (right now I have to create the image and > edit > > manually the grub.conf file in the image in order to edit them) - this > > could help in situations where someone cannot setup PXE. > > The real issue here is what file in the image to edit and how. > > You could try editing virt-p2v-make-disk (or a local copy of it) and > add something to the long virt-builder command right near the end of > the file. I would suggest adding an --edit option such as: > > --edit '/etc/grub/grub.conf: s/linux (.*)/linux $1 your_parameter=foo/' \ > > At the end I simply used guestmount to mount the image, and edited manually the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and added the parameters.
BTW: I couldn't find a way to tell it to map the NIC to a bridge in the virt-manager, which parameter should it be? > > 2. Is there a way to create the image as a bootable ISO? Hyper-V for > > example, doesn't like standard "hard disk" images. I see that kiwi > has this > > functionality, but it's only for SuSE. > > I actually tried at one point to create a bootable ISO from a > virt-builder image, but totally failed to make anything work ... > You could try the kickstart approach (ie. virt-p2v-make-kickstart) but > then you're in a world of other painful tools such as livecd-creator. > I found a workaround for this - qemu-img convert to VHDX, then - no need for ISO ;) Thanks for your help. I hope within the next few hours to record a video and upload to youtube about using virt-p2v. > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, > bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org >
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