On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 01:32:55PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 12:49 PM Peter Crowther > <peter.crowther@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 11:34, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 11:27:36AM +0100, Peter Crowther wrote: > >> > On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 11:18, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > > >> > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 12:00:56PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: > >> > > > Instead of using "floppy" as the way to perform unattended installations > >> > > > for Windoes, let's prefer using "cdrom" instead. > >> > > > >> > > Aren't there versions of windows which /only/ support "floppy", which > >> > > would require us to preferentially use "cdrom" but fallback to "floppy" > >> > > for older versions ? > > Daniel, > > Older versions of Windows would require floppy. However: > - There are no floppy support for VMs using q35 in some OSes; This doesn't bother me. If some OS vendors want to intentionally cripple floppy support they simply don't get to use OS which need floppy install. > - mtools has been orphaned on Fedora; This is more of a problem. We need devs to be able to test the code and so if Fedora has dropped mtools, the main dev platform of virt-manager is unable to test it. > > With those two things in mind, I'd happily not support those systems > as part of a new feature for virt-install. > Still, if you prefer (and Cole agrees), I'd be okay providing a > fallback code to use floppy as the injection method for Windows and > keep supporting Windows XP. Unless there's a viable alternative to mtools that isn't a huge amount of work, then I think we probably have to drop it. > >> > Not for many, many years. Even Windows 2000 enabled you to burn a CD with > >> > a winnt.sif answer file on it; I've not checked further back. How far back > >> > do we wish to support? > >> > >> libosinfo provides install scripts back to XP vintage > >> > > All fine - CD-only unattended installation was well established by that point. > > > > Peter, > > Are you sure about this? I couldn't start a unattended installation > using a second cdrom containing the winnit.sif file on it. I think you probably needed to modify the primary cdrom media to contain the sif file. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
