On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:09:54PM -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote: > Hugh Brock wrote: > >Michael DeHaan wrote: > >>John.Sanabria@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>i already built virtual boxes with koan. Question, there exist a > >>>parameter > >>>where can specify the directory where virtual image will be located? I > >>>assume by default is /var/lib/virtimages > >>> > >>>thanks, > >>> > >>>PD: Sorry, i'm not python programmer, but i did a grep in directory > >>>/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler for "virtimages" word and i > >>>can't > >>>found anything. > >>> [snip stupidly long signature ascii art crap] > >>Currently this is hardcoded in koan's source to /var/lib/virtimages. > >>Adding a /var/lib/virtimages directory symlink in your kickstart's > >>%post when provisioning the dom0's might be a good idea, if you > >>wanted to use storage not on /var. Or virtimages could be a mount > >>point... either way. > >> > >>I'll look into adding some options for this. > >>--Michael > > > >If you're referring to Xen filesystem images, they should really go in > >/var/lib/xen/images to keep selinux from complaining. Does anyone know > >if there's a consensus directory for virtual filesystem images for for > >other hypervisors (qemu, kvm)? No defined location for other hypervisors yet. > Trueness, I will make it so. I think I had /var/lib/xen[/|_]images at > one point also but decided against it given that we thought xen itself > owned that path. The Xen RPM does own this directory. > It would be nice if SELinux just cared about, say, context instead of > paths in this case :) SELinux does only care about context. It is the policy which says which paths map to which contexts, and in current policy we have the mapping from xen_image_t going to /var/lib/xen/images. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
