Kay Williams wrote: > Can the issue be addressed in the upcoming virtinst release? > Sure, I'll take a look at it by Monday. Thanks, Cole > Cole Robinson wrote: >> Kay Williams wrote: >>> We have an application that builds custom distributions based on RHEL, CentOS or >>> Fedora. We would like to install these over the network using virt-install, but >>> we've run into an issue with the distro check logic. Specifically, virt-install >>> fails unless it finds a string "Red Hat Enterprise Linux", "Fedora" or "CentOS" >>> within the family field of the .treeinfo file. >>> >>> Our application currently sets the family field to the user-provided distro name >>> (see below). We have avoided using the base distro name given trademark concerns. >>> >>> [general] >>> family = <user provided value> >>> variant = <user provided value> >>> >>> We can get virt-install to pass the distro check by setting the family name to >>> one of the accepted values, e.g. >>> >>> [general] >>> family = Fedora >>> variant = [user provided distro name] >>> >>> Is this the expected/desired use for the family and variant fields? Or is there >>> another approach we should consider? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Kay >> (cc-ing et-mgmt-tools, since that is the list for virt-install/ >> virt-manager) >> >> We shouldn't be failing if the family/variant is unknown: it's really >> just a convenience check. We can just assume it's an unknown distro >> and continue on, checking for [images-xen] and so on.. The code may >> need to be reworked a bit to accomodate this. >> >> Although we don't do it at the moment, I could see us in the future >> using this family/variant value to check our internal db on whether >> to set up virtio and other specific settings. So using custom values >> here may not allow virt-install to choose an optimal config, but we >> should still try and let the install proceed. >> >> - Cole >> >> _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
