Fedora 19

[Dean Hunter]

When using virt-install to build a Fedora 19 VM guest on a Fedora 18 VM
host, what is the correct value for the "--os-variant" parameter as
"fedora19" does not seem to be available?

[Cole Robinson]

On 04/06/2013 11:47 AM, Dean Hunter wrote:
>  When using virt-install to build a Fedora 19 VM guest on a Fedora 18
> VM
>  host, what is the correct value for the "--os-variant" parameter as
>  "fedora19" does not seem to be available?
>   
Just use --os-variant fedora18 for now, it will give the same settings as
fedora19 eventually will.

Please also file a bug against python-virtinst so we can track adding fedora19
with a future update.

Thanks,
Cole

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 04/09/2013 01:55 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  On 04/06/2013 11:47 AM, Dean Hunter wrote:
> > When using virt-install to build a Fedora 19 VM guest on a Fedora 18 VM
> > host, what is the correct value for the "--os-variant" parameter as
> > "fedora19" does not seem to be available?
> >
>  
>  Just use --os-variant fedora18 for now, it will give the same settings as
>  fedora19 eventually will. 
As an addendum to Cole's above comment:

If it's any useful, here's how I trigger my f19 installs:
===========
virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
    --network=bridge:br0 \
    --initrd-inject=/export/fed-minimal.ks \
    --extra-args="ks=file:/fed-minimal.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200" \
    --name=$domname \
    --disk /export/vmimgs/$domname.img,size=20,cache=none \
    --ram 2048 \
    --vcpus=2 \
    --check-cpu \
    --accelerate \
    --cpuset auto \
    --os-type linux \
    --os-variant fedora18 \
    --hvm \
    --location=/path/to/f19/tree \
    --nographics
===========

-> contents of fed-minimal.ks
===========
install
text
reboot
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --bootproto dhcp
rootpw testpwd
firewall --enabled --ssh
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc America/New_York
bootloader --location=mbr --append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
rd_NO_PLYMOUTH"
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
autopart

%packages
@core
%end
===========

I was asked this question a couple of times - If a user doesn't provide --os-variant
the
correct one (for recent Fedoras..), will it screw up their install. Maybe we should note
it somewhere.

>  
>  Please also file a bug against python-virtinst so we can track adding fedora19
>  with a future update.
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Cole
>  
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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 04:25:18PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  On 04/06/2013 11:47 AM, Dean Hunter wrote:
>  > When using virt-install to build a Fedora 19 VM guest on a Fedora 18 VM
>  > host, what is the correct value for the "--os-variant" parameter as
>  > "fedora19" does not seem to be available?
>  > 
>  
>  Just use --os-variant fedora18 for now, it will give the same settings as
>  fedora19 eventually will. 
Would it (or would it not?) be sensible to have os-variant map every
fedora(\d+) [where $1 >= latest_known_version] to latest_known_version?

Rich.

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[Cole Robinson]

On 04/17/2013 03:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 04:25:18PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > On 04/06/2013 11:47 AM, Dean Hunter wrote:
> >> When using virt-install to build a Fedora 19 VM guest on a Fedora 18 VM
> >> host, what is the correct value for the "--os-variant" parameter as
> >> "fedora19" does not seem to be available?
> >>
> >
> > Just use --os-variant fedora18 for now, it will give the same settings as
> > fedora19 eventually will.
>  
>  Would it (or would it not?) be sensible to have os-variant map every
>  fedora(\d+) [where $1 >= latest_known_version] to latest_known_version?
>   
Yeah that would be nice. We already have similar magic when auto-detecting the
fedora version from .treeinfo if doing a URL install, it just isn't wired up
the the command line. People will still report lack of a FedoraXX in the
virt-manager UI though.

- Cole