Bryan Kearney wrote:
Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>
>> Michael:
>>
>> Looks like there is no current support for doing images via virt-image.
>> Is that correct? If so... are you open to looking at that type of
>> integration?
>>
>> -- bk
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> We are entirely interested in this.
>
> The idea is to do:
>
> cobbler image add --name=foo --type=virtimage
> --file=nfs://server/path/to/img.foo
>
> koan --virt --image=foo --server=cobbler.example.com
>
> and to be able to use cobbler for image cloning.
>
> To do this, we must have a simple way for users to get the XML data from
> something like virt-convert and save it in cobbler.
>
> This way users will be able to go into cobbler and up the RAM amounts
> (or override them in koan) without having to hand-edit XML.
>
> Then, from koan, we essentially would be regenerating the XML from the
> template and calling virt-image.
>
> Somewhat complicated ... but something I've wanted to do for a while.
> I've been waiting for virt-convert to gain some features, which I
> suspect are here now?
>
>
Yes, I believe so. Or.. I could see passing in the image add with all
the necessary data (see earlier post on ruby). Do you have some time
tomorrow to whiteboard/gobby this up? I think the next interesting steps
for the adk would be to begin to resolve getting these images into
cobbler (and then onto disk).
Yeah, if the ADK could just generate "cobbler image add" line with all
of the associated parameters that would make sense to me.
We would still need to koan to form up the command line to instantiate
it on the other end, but that would be pretty easy.
If you are going to be deploying virt-images instead of kickstarting
them, most likely folks are doing it to heavily customize the image, so
going
that way through the toolchain seems completely reasonable.
(Otherwise folks can install as they do now with koan).
--Michael
-- bk
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