On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 02:52:45PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > Cole Robinson wrote: > > Guido Günther wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:50:28PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:12:03PM +0100, Guido G?nther wrote: > >>>> Hi Cole, > >>>> this all looks great. > >>>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 05:50:15PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote: > >>>>> The summary section is pretty straight forward, no surprises here. > >>>>> The 'Advanced Options' section encompasses networking, hypervisor, and > >>>>> architecture options. The hypervisor and arch defaults were explained above. > >>>> An option to select disk (scsi, ide, virtio) and network adapter model > >>>> (e1000, ...) as advanced options would be great (still defaulting to > >>>> virtio if supported via the osdict) since there are some OSes that don't > >>>> support all hardware out of the box and there are kvm/qemu versions that > >>>> have problems with certain adapter types. > >>> If there are combinations of OS,Disk that don't work IMHO we should > >>> improve the OS type metadata so we don't use them. Choice of specific > >>> hardware models is something we really want to keep out of the new VM > >>> wizard, because the end user really isn't in a position to have the > >>> knowledge to make suitable choices. > >> Sometimes it's not an issue of the guest but of the hypervisor like > >> missing PXE roms[1]. Attached is a patch Andreas Unterkircher that adds > >> NIC model selection to the advanced options of the vm wizard (some code > >> could probably be shared with vmmAddHardware). > >> Cheers, > >> -- Guido > >> > >> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521091 > >> > > > > Ideally this is the type of issue the OS metadata should still be able > > to solve, though we are far from it at the moment. > > > > Hmm, the above is wrong, I misunderstood the reported problem: OS > metadata won't help if a PXE rom hasn't been installed. However, the > point still stands that this shouldn't be a common case, and a more > general solution to install tweaking is desired. IMHO, if PXE rom is missing this is a QEMU or distro packaging bug. All the network adapters we use are capable of having a PXE rom in QEMU 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
