On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 08:59 -0600, Pete Travis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:55 AM, David Lehman <dlehman@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 08:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:29:21AM -0600, Pete Travis wrote: > > > equated to the memory requirements for the running > environment, especially > > > for cloud guests. @minimal requires less memory to install > than a full > > > desktop - but does anyone want to run Fedora with less > memory than that, or > > > is doing so venturing out of reasonable guidelines and > into > > > proof-of-concept adventureland? > > > > Yes, people want to run Fedora in VMs with less memory than > that. (Key > > demographic: large computer science classes.) > > > Would those classes be installing the VMs themselves, or would > the > instructor/assistant do that beforehand? If the latter, this > is a > perfect case for anaconda's install-to-a-disk-image-file > capability and > makes little sense to handle by doing dozens of interactive > installations. > > Dave > > > > > I wasn't aware of this compelling capability. I experimented with it a > bit; encouragingly, I can create an image with qcow-create that > anaconda recognizes, but I haven't sorted out how to run anaconda from > the command line without it taking over the system that runs it, with > varying degrees of success. The functionality seems... inconsistent. > Is this the way I'm using it[1] ? > > > [1] ssh to a guest to I don't kill my workstation > # ssh targetvm anaconda --kickstart=http://host/ks.cfg > --image=/root/anaconda.img I found a bug just a few minutes ago that would prevent disk image installs from working as expected [1]. There may be other issues lurking as this is an under-used piece of functionality. Your usage seems fine. [1] When disk images are specified they automatically become the exclusive set of usable disks. The bug I found earlier marks all disks, including the disk image, as unusable. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
