[Thincrust-devel] generating scsi disks

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 14:46:21 UTC 2009


Alan Pevec wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com 
> <mailto:bkearney at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     David Huff wrote:
> 
>         David Huff wrote:
> 
>             Technically you could modify the vmx file to present the
>             disk to vmware as a scis disk, which should work, since the
>             scsi drivers are loaded in the the ramdisk and everything
>             need to use a scsi disk should be on the image.
> 
> 
>         This is not %100 correct, I did have to add the sym53c8xx module
>         to the initrd in order to boot the disk image created with
>         appliance-creator as a scsi disk in kvm.
> 
>         Now the question is should this module be added to the default
>         module list that get loaded via appliance-creator, or do we need
>         to add the functionality where the module list can be customized
>         as an argument?
> 
> 
>     +1 for a new command line option
> 
> 
> kickstart has 'device' directive which should add the kmod to initrd:
>   device kmod_name
> 
> example usage:
> http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=ovirt-node-image.git;a=blob;f=common-install.ks;hb=refs/heads/next#l13
> 
> but you need livecd-tools fix past 020 tag (so not in Fedora RPM yet):
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=livecd;a=commitdiff;h=b98ad7391cef406967636f4fba7e3d5d2602e83f


Huff.. I thin kthis modedl is better as it keeps the external metadata 
to a minimum.

-- bk





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