The attached patch adds a --video option to virt-install, for specifying the
video device model to attach to the VM (cirrus, vga, vmvga, etc.).
Pretty straightforward, the invocation is simply --video MODEL, ex:
--video vga
Questions or comments appreciated.
- Cole
# HG changeset patch
# User Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1247102917 14400
# Node ID 658d02442b2f8a55de9c6e19c498e09cb00a173e
# Parent 7751290d749d678e6a97a32ea5455af6e2226e78
virt-install: Add --video option.
Takes the video model (cirrus, vga, etc) as the only argument. Can easily
be expanded in the future if needed.
diff -r 7751290d749d -r 658d02442b2f man/en/virt-install.pod.in
--- a/man/en/virt-install.pod.in Wed Jul 08 21:28:19 2009 -0400
+++ b/man/en/virt-install.pod.in Wed Jul 08 21:28:37 2009 -0400
@@ -573,6 +573,12 @@
host to render the output. If the SDL window is closed the guest may
be unconditionally terminated.
+=item --video=VIDEO
+
+Specify what video device model will be attached to the guest. Valid values
+for VIDEO are hypervisor specific, but some options for recent kvm are
+cirrus, vga, or vmvga (vmware).
+
=item --nographics
No graphical console will be allocated for the guest. Fully virtualized guests
diff -r 7751290d749d -r 658d02442b2f tests/clitest.py
--- a/tests/clitest.py Wed Jul 08 21:28:19 2009 -0400
+++ b/tests/clitest.py Wed Jul 08 21:28:37 2009 -0400
@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@
"--sdl",
# VNC w/ lots of options
"--vnc --keymap ja --vncport 5950 --vnclisten 1.2.3.4",
+ # --video option
+ "--vnc --video vga",
],
"invalid": [
@@ -207,6 +209,8 @@
"--vnc --keymap ZZZ",
# Invalid port
"--vnc --vncport -50",
+ # Invalid --video
+ "--vnc --video foobar",
],
}, # category "graphics"
diff -r 7751290d749d -r 658d02442b2f virt-install
--- a/virt-install Wed Jul 08 21:28:19 2009 -0400
+++ b/virt-install Wed Jul 08 21:28:37 2009 -0400
@@ -627,6 +627,9 @@
parser.add_option_group(netg)
vncg = cli.graphics_option_group(parser)
+ vncg.add_option("", "--video", dest="video", type="string",
+ action="callback", callback=cli.check_before_append,
+ help=_("Specify video hardware type."))
vncg.add_option("", "--noautoconsole", action="store_false",
dest="autoconsole",
help=_("Don't automatically try to connect to the guest "
@@ -739,6 +742,8 @@
get_chardevs(VirtualDevice.VIRTUAL_DEV_PARALLEL, options.parallels,
guest)
+ cli.get_video(options.video, guest)
+
# set up disks
get_disks(options.file_path, options.diskopts, options.disksize,
options.sparse, options.nodisks, guest, conn)
diff -r 7751290d749d -r 658d02442b2f virtinst/cli.py
--- a/virtinst/cli.py Wed Jul 08 21:28:19 2009 -0400
+++ b/virtinst/cli.py Wed Jul 08 21:28:37 2009 -0400
@@ -716,6 +716,15 @@
name=devname)
guest.hostdevs.append(dev)
+def get_video(video_models, guest):
+ if not video_models:
+ return
+
+ for model in video_models:
+ dev = virtinst.VirtualVideoDevice(guest.conn)
+ dev.model_type = model
+ guest.add_device(dev)
+
### Option parsing
def check_before_store(option, opt_str, value, parser):
if len(value) == 0:
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