Re: DVD auto install test script

[Will Woods]

Oh wow. This looks like a very, very promising start. I'm really excited to get some
time to test this some more. First, a quick comment:

----- "James Laska" <jlaska(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  I spoke to Richard Jones on IRC about this.  Richard has been
>  developing
>  libguestfs (http://libguestfs.org - a library for accessing virtual
>  disk
>  images).  He suggested that guestfs (aka python-libguestfs) could be
>  used to accomplish this and provided a sample python snippet that
>  might
>  help accomplish what you'd need (see attached python file).  This
>  looks
>  promising, might be worth exploring as a way to provide the ks.cfg to
>  the guest without needing to modify the initrd.img. 
Yeah, you could definitely create the disk image in advance and pull the ks.cfg off it
before installing - or we could create an *extra* disk image and pretend it's a USB
flash drive or similar. We'd just need to remember to modify the kickstart to not
format all drives (or to use libvirt to remove the drive once we've loaded the
ks.cfg/updates.img/etc.)

Either way would work equally well, but to test all of the stuff in the installation test
plan we'll eventually need to implement both methods *and* the http/ftp methods.

I think the local-disk methods are probably simpler to start out with, though.

Anyway: thanks for all your hard work, Liam!

-w

DVD auto install test script

[Li Ming]

On 02/02/2010 06:30 AM, Will Woods wrote:
>  Oh wow. This looks like a very, very promising start. I'm really
> excited to get some time to test this some more. First, a quick comment:
>
>  ----- "James Laska"<jlaska(a)redhat.com>  wrote:
>
> > I spoke to Richard Jones on IRC about this.  Richard has been
> > developing
> > libguestfs (http://libguestfs.org - a library for accessing virtual
> > disk
> > images).  He suggested that guestfs (aka python-libguestfs) could be
> > used to accomplish this and provided a sample python snippet that
> > might
> > help accomplish what you'd need (see attached python file).  This
> > looks
> > promising, might be worth exploring as a way to provide the ks.cfg to
> > the guest without needing to modify the initrd.img.
>
>  Yeah, you could definitely create the disk image in advance and pull the ks.cfg off it
> before installing - or we could create an *extra* disk image and pretend it's a USB
> flash drive or similar. We'd just need to remember to modify the kickstart to not
> format all drives (or to use libvirt to remove the drive once we've loaded the
> ks.cfg/updates.img/etc.)
>
>  Either way would work equally well, but to test all of the stuff in the installation test
> plan we'll eventually need to implement both methods *and* the http/ftp methods.
>
>  I think the local-disk methods are probably simpler to start out with, though.
>
>  Anyway: thanks for all your hard work, Liam!
>  
Thanks Will, your guide is very helpful, we need to make both local ks 
and network ks work in the future.I will add this to the script if I can 
do it. :)

Regards,
Liam