[Thincrust-devel] RFC On importing raw images

[David Huff]

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?
> (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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