Some analysis on the size of the minimal and Server installs, of Fedora 23

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Tue Nov 17 19:14:50 UTC 2015


On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:48:08AM +0000, Michael Hampton wrote:
> Along those lines, I would like to see Anaconda detect whether the
> system is a virtual machine, and automatically select for installation
> the _appropriate_ guest agents for the detected hypervisor, rather
> than _all_ of them, but this doesn't affect Server exclusively.

We actually do this already. Anaconda runs systemd-detect-virt and then
adds a group named platform-<virt name> if it is running inside a
detected hypervisor. Packages for the group are controlled by comps. eg.
kvm will add a 'platform-kvm' group to the installation automatically.

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