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

[Robert Nelson]

Hugh O. Brock wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:50:47PM -0800, Robert Nelson wrote:
>   
>> I've been trying to add support for additional para-virtual operating 
>> systems (OpenSolaris and Debian) to virt-manager.  There is no problem 
>> getting the initial kernel and ramdisk, however there is no way to 
>> specify the target disk node based on the OS or distro.  Also some OS's 
>> don't support the virtual frame buffer driver but there is no way to 
>> prevent the XML for it being created.
>>
>> I can't see how this could be done without doing some major 
>> restructuring of the code and creating a new class to encapsulate all 
>> the target specific information.  Is there any plan on doing something 
>> like this?  If someone were to do it, are the changes likely to be 
>> incorporated?
>>     
>
> Hello Robert, thanks for your interest.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "specify the target disk
> node based on the OS or distro"? 
>
>   

Virt-Manager names the target disknodes xvda, xvdb, etc.   OpenSolaris 
requires 0, 1, 2, etc.

> I would have no problem with adding a checkbox to virt-manager that
> would have the effect of passing the --nographics flag to virtinst if
> you can determine a good place to do it. I don't think we want to
> spend a whole ton of time creating a new class to take different PV
> guest OSes into account, though. Having said that, have you looked at
> the *Installer class family in virtinst? Is there a way we could
> extend that to do what you need?
>
>   

I'll take another look at the Installer class and see if it can be done 
there.

> Take care,
> --Hugh
>
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