On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 08:27:45AM -0600, Mike Latimer wrote: > On Friday, March 28, 2014 12:26:26 PM Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > A bunch of tests currently attempt to kickstart a full Fedora > > OS image install. Everytime I try to update this kickstart to > > a new version of Fedora it causes no end of pain. Switch the > > tests over to use Richard Jones' virt-builder command which > > is part of libguestfs. This makes it trivial to deploy and > > customize full OS images from pre-built templates. > > > > Mike - does Suse include a new enough version of libguestfs > > to get access to the 'virt-builder' tool yet ? > > Yes - in openSUSE 13.1 and the upcoming SLE-12 we do have virt-builder. You > are completely right about these tests being rather painful. We have some > local modifications that use autoyast to install a openSUSE 12.3 guest. This > works, but is not without complication. Switching to an openSUSE 13.1 guest > solves some issues and introduces others (just for the installation itself). > For the machines I'm immediately testing with, I hacked through the issues and > created a static 13.1 image that I deploy as part of my provisioning. ;) > > I probably won't get to testing these changes today. If not, I'll go through > them on Monday. (When I do, I'll think about adding some type of option to > choose between guest types, rather than maintaining a local patch which > replaces Fedora with SUSE.) I already made it configurable - just change the OS name in the config file to any that virt-builder supports. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list