kickstart to install to whole disk

2014-10-22 Thread Steven Haigh
Hi all, I'm wondering - I'm looking to simplify my Xen DomU installation via a kickstart file... As my Xen config has /dev/xvda - which should be formatted as ext4 and used as / - is there any options that I can achieve this? Just about everything I've stumbled across does partitioning first - a

Re: kickstart packages question

2014-10-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: > > If I put in a group to be installed that includes a package I don't want to > install what's the proper way to set that up? Not sure about "proper", but I have found that "-Package" in the %packages section rarely does what I w

kickstart packages question

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Trying to figure out how to set up a kickstart %packages section for SL7. If I put in a group to be installed that includes a package I don't want to install what's the proper way to set that up? My tests so far haven't revealed a good solution. It seems like if I specify a group, but them e

RE: libvirt guests graceful shutdown upon hosts powerdown/reboot

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi In SL6 /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guets defaulted to suspend the guests, so I changed it to shutdown guets with: ON_BOOT=ignore ON_SHUTDOWN=shutdown PARALLEL_SHUTDOWN=6 SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=90 It looks like SL7 has the same settings, but I haven't tried them yet. Regards Bill Maidment -Origina

Re: libvirt guests graceful shutdown upon hosts powerdown/reboot

2014-10-22 Thread Karel Lang AFD
Hi, IMHO, the libvirt-guests init script which is part of libvirt-client rpm package should take care of suspending the guests upon shutdown procedure? -- *Karel Lang* On 10/22/2014 11:58 AM, lejeczek wrote: hi everybody by an assumption I expected VM guests to be shut down/off gracefully w

libvirt guests graceful shutdown upon hosts powerdown/reboot

2014-10-22 Thread lejeczek
hi everybody by an assumption I expected VM guests to be shut down/off gracefully when the host is being powered down or rebooted, but this does not seem to be the case so I wonder.. Am I missing some libvirt components/packages ? Or my assumption is incorrect and guests have to be shutdown m