On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:49:17AM -0800, Robert Nelson wrote: > 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. In the virtinst/FullVirtGuest.py class, there is already a bunch of OS specific metadata, eg what of mouse to use, apic/acpi/pae settings, whether the installer is multi-stage reboots (eg Windows). I'd recommend moving this metadata into virtinst/DistroManager and have a bunch of methods in that module for querying distro specific metadata, from the Installer class. 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 -=| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
