[et-mgmt-tools] Re: [Thincrust-devel] RFC On importing raw images

[Joey Boggs]

David Huff wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> We are starting to look at more interesting use cases around bringing 
>> in existing appliances into virt-manager. Joey has some interesting 
>> questions about driver, but I wanted to bring up an easier one.
>>
>> Some of public appliances which exist are raw disk images which can 
>> easily be booted, but have no virt-image xml file. The user can of 
>> course manually create the file, but I think it would be nice to have 
>> the tooling help this. I could see one of the following solutions. 
>> Can folks pipe in with comments on these or another approach?
>>
>>
>> (1) Create an "interactive" mode for virt-image which prompts the user.

> Doesn't virt install already have a kindaof an interactive mode for 
> creating a new image?
I think Bryan's hinting at a way to import just an imagefile and the 
interactive portion fills in the blanks about the memory/etc

>> (2) Modify virt-image to allow for all data normally the xml to be 
>> passed at command line (example, add a --imagefile parameter)
>> (3)Create a simple pre-processor to achieve 1 or 2 above.
>>
>>
>> -- bk
>>
>>
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