On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:37:28PM +0000, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:49:50AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > virt-install -d -n domu-225 -r 1024 --hvm --vnc -f > > > /export/guests/2008.11/root.img --os-type=windows -l > > > /net/heaped/export/netimage/windows/xp.iso > > > > > > Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:36:58 DEBUG Using libvirt URI connect 'xen' > > > Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:36:58 DEBUG Requesting virt method 'hvm' > > > Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:36:58 DEBUG Received virt method 'hvm' > > > ... > > > Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:36:58 DEBUG Attempting to detect distro: > > > ... > > > Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:36:58 DEBUG Cleaning up mount at > > > /var/lib/xen/virtinstmnt.REF5Hf > > > Could not find an installable distribution at '/net/heaped/export/netimage/windows/xp.iso' > > > > > > Looks like it's no longer skipping the PV install detection for HVM > > > guests. Am I missing something? > > > > The -l / --location PATH|URL arg will do a kernel+initrd based install > > for either HVM or Paravirt - latest Xen support kernel+initrd boot > > of Linux HVM guests, as does KVM. > > This is a regression over previous releases, where -l works for both. > (And that was a good fix, since people *always* accidentally use -l > instead of -c and get very confused. Can it be fixed? That was a bug in a previous release. We need to have distinct meaning for them, because many distros images & hypervisors will support both kernel+initrd and BIOS based provisioning, so we need to be able to distinguish between them. 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
