On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 14:07 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > So I think what we'd want todo is to write a > kickstart file that installs a bare minimum Fedora guest OS, with a > pre-set root password, ssh daemon active & known IP address. Then use > that with Rich Jones' febootstrap script to create the guest image > at runtime. We'd cache the guest image between runs of the TCK, so the > overhead of febootstrap will only be seen the first time. > febootstrap seems like a good way to prepare a guest with the necessary files in it, but I have not found anything in febootstrap about kickstart support or installation in a disk image. Have I overlooked something? So. my understanding of your proposal is: - create a image file with qemu-img - loop back mount that image file - use febootstrap to install a fedora file system into image file I still have some problems setting the root password via febootstrap-run. Message is: passwd: Can not identity you Would the call to febootstrap be part of a libvirt-TCK script? An alternative could be use <cmdline/> in the domain xml to pass the kickstart file to the basic Fedora anaconda install kernel+initrd and do the installation from the guest itself. -- Best regards, Gerhard Stenzel, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list