On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:44 -0200, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> > > This patch does the following things: > > - Drop the built-in tftp/dhcp based unatteded installation for the > following reason: > > 1 It's based on slirp and was not supported by major > distributions. It's only used for linux guest installation and we > can simply replace it with the -kernel method used by network > installation. > 2 The configuration was complex and hard to be shared with network > based installation. After using -kernel method, most of the > configurations could be shared and easy to be configurated. > > In order to achieve this: > > 1 a new option 'boot_path' is used to specifiy the path of the > kernel/initrd from the medium. > 2 autoyast file is detected through the extra_params instead of > kernel_args (which is dropped with tftp option). > > - Re-strucutre the unattaneded installation related configurations and > make them easy to be used and configurated. > > - Move cdrom related params into unattended_install.cdrom variants, > as there's no need to launch with cdrom when testing a guest > installed from network. > > Changes from v1: > - Make possible to execute parallel guest installation (the 1st version > of the patch was using a unique path for initrd.img and vmlinuz inside > the host filesystem). > - Reorganize some of the KVM autotest defaults > > Tested with RHEL/Fedora/Windows installation. OpenSUSE/SLES is untested. Oh, by the way, I've tested the patch with OpenSUSE 11.3 and it works like a charm. I am really really happy to get rid of slirp code dependency, thank you very much Jason! Lucas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
