http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt is used by Fedora's preupgrade package. Will that work? -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -----Original Message----- From: Dale Bewley [mailto:dlbewley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Fri 4/10/2009 6:11 PM To: Fedora/Linux Management Tools Cc: Domsch, Matt Subject: Re: virt-manager wizard suggestions On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 11:36 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:37:33PM -0700, Dale Bewley wrote: > > The virt-manager new VM wizard defaults to Generic for OS Type and > > Variant. It defaults to 'Debian Lenny' after you select Linux. > > > > It would be nice if it defaulted to 'Linux' and 'Fedora $host_version'. > > At least on the Fedora release of virt-manager. > > Our goal is that the user should never have to pick the OS type/variant > except for when doing PXE boot. I think its reasonable to make ti > default to the current host Fedora version in this case. In non-PXe > cases, it should be auto-detecting the correct type/variant from the > install URL you give it. The OS type/variant dialog is presented at the same time the user picks between cdrom/network install/pxe boot. The install URL is entered on the following dialog screen. > > The installation media URL example is generic, it would also be nice if > > it defaulted to the mirror manager download link for the version > > selected above. > > It'd be nice to be able to pre-populate a list of URLs for all common > distros, so you could simply pick one off the list. Any idea if > mirror manager provides a URL we can fetch to obtain a complete list > of all supported Fedora OS versions, so we can avoid hardcoding this. Yes, mirror manager http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/MirrorManager can do that. Accessing http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-10&arch=x86_64 will give you a list of mirrors for f10 x86_64. In fact it will use GeoIP to find a list of mirrors "close" to you by default. If you add &redirect=1 it will bounce you to the first mirror on the list. Passing an invalid repo and/or arch will return a list of all repos and arches. i.e. http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=foo&arch=foo There must be a more formal way to do that though. Is there a parameter for that, Matt? > > Also, libvirt ships with a 'default' network but not a default storage > > pool. Should there be a 'default' storage pool > > for /var/lib/libvirt/images out of the box? > > Yes, IMHO, if virt-manager connects to a libvirt host and finds that > no storage pools are configured, then it should create one based on > /var/lib/libvirt/images. Is the default network shipped with libvirt or virt-manager? I thought the former. -- Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis GPG: 0xB098A0F3 0D5A 9AEB 43F4 F84C 7EFD 1753 064D 2583 B098 A0F3 _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
