[et-mgmt-tools] Virt-Manager: Supporting additional para-virtual OS's

[Hugh O. Brock]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:14:29PM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:
> 
> Another route (though one that takes more effort), is to base install on
> virt-image metadata - the idea is that we would ship stock virt-image
> files for installable OS's; those files would contain the salient bits
> about an OS (such as APIC/ACPI, whether to enable a graphics console,
> kernel cmdline for pv) virt-manager would have to modify those files a
> little before passing them off to virt-image, mostly to put things like
> the ISO location and path to the root disk in.
> 

That seems like the right way to do it. We need an image-packager though, right?

--H