On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 06:17:19PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 05:22:19PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > The 'arch' is refering to the architecture of the guest OS kernel, eg one > > of i686, x86_64, ppc, sparc, etc, etc. The 'virsh capabilities' XML for > > a hypervisor driver declares what architectures the driver supports and > > thus allows virt-image to determine whether it is capable of executing > > the OS being requested. Some drivers like QEMU supported a whole suite > > of architectures by virtue of doing emulation, others only support matching > > host arch (eg Xen). > > What do you mean? Xen most definitely runs i686 guest OSes on x86_64. Yes, the capabilities information for Xen on x86_64 declares both i686 and x86_64 capabilities. > > virt-image.py:217 > > dom = guest.start_install(None, progresscb, options.replace) > > Is this just using the install code as a shell, or something? Yeah, I think this is just badly named methods here - I'm pretty sure its just booting the guest. > > The idea behind the virt-image/virt-unpack association is that the > > virt-image XML defines a portable format for 'appliance' metadata > > information (cf OVF) but not the distribution format (ZIP, tar.gz, > > etc). So the virt-pack tool would doing bundling into ZIP files. > > Right. It's not yet clear what's the best way to deal with the > unpack/pack step: maybe virt-convert could automatically handle it. > Presumably we /do/ want to move virt-pack to be virt-convert too at some > point. Yeah, I think it'd be good to have it all in one tool - we need to decide on this before I do the next release of virtinst code. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- 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
