RE: [fedora-virt] how can i verify that HW extensions are being used?

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi Mike,

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 12:47 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 14:14 -0500, Mike Hinz wrote:
> > It also acts
> > differently than a normal Fedora 11 beta install on physical HW in that it
> > asks you for some network adapter info and it appears to me, to install
> > entirely from the network as the lights on lab switch goes nuts as does the
> > network activity light on my server AND I see essentially zero activity on
> > the DVD drive on the server.  I'm convinced therefore that something is just
> > wrong with the way Fedora 11 installs, at least on the Fedora 11 beta
> > physical server.  
> > 
> > Mark, do you want me to still file a bug on this?
> 
> Yes, please do file a bug against anaconda and cc
> fedora-virt-maint redhat com

Thanks for being persistent about this problem :-)

I've taken the time to reproduce here and filed:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/496298

Definitely seems that when anaconda is running under KVM, it isn't
seeing the DVD as a valid packages source.

Cheers,
Mark.