Re: Virt-Manager: Supporting additional para-virtual OS's

[Robert Nelson <robertn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hugh O. Brock wrote:

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:50:47PM -0800, Robert Nelson wrote:
  

I've been trying to add support for additional para-virtual operating 
systems (OpenSolaris and Debian) to virt-manager.  There is no problem 
getting the initial kernel and ramdisk, however there is no way to 
specify the target disk node based on the OS or distro.  Also some OS's 
don't support the virtual frame buffer driver but there is no way to 
prevent the XML for it being created.

I can't see how this could be done without doing some major 
restructuring of the code and creating a new class to encapsulate all 
the target specific information.  Is there any plan on doing something 
like this?  If someone were to do it, are the changes likely to be 
incorporated?
    

Hello Robert, thanks for your interest.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "specify the target disk
node based on the OS or distro"? 

  

Virt-Manager names the target disknodes xvda, xvdb, etc.   OpenSolaris requires 0, 1, 2, etc.

I would have no problem with adding a checkbox to virt-manager that
would have the effect of passing the --nographics flag to virtinst if
you can determine a good place to do it. I don't think we want to
spend a whole ton of time creating a new class to take different PV
guest OSes into account, though. Having said that, have you looked at
the *Installer class family in virtinst? Is there a way we could
extend that to do what you need?

  

I'll take another look at the Installer class and see if it can be done there.

Take care,
--Hugh

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