[Fedora-spins] Server spin

[Jesse Keating]

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On 11/15/2010 09:29 PM, Jon Masters wrote:
> Actually, I still mostly do non-network installs (even on virtual
> machines). I don't think I'm alone, especially in the Fedora space. I
> *do* think it's far more common to do network installs the larger you
> get, but for e.g. a home VM host box or a few build boxes like I have at
> home, I generally download the media and do it from that. That also has
> the advantage of not requiring another box to serve the install images
> that is local (Fedora installs over the public Internet is painful,
> better than it used to be, but still fails too often in my usage).

In my case, it's all on the same box.  The box that has the virt guests
is also the dhcp/tftp server and the fedora mirror.  My virt images just
pxe boot and I pick what I want to install at that moment in time.  This
way I never have to monkey with the guest settings for what image I want
to boot, and I can get up to date installs by enabling updates repos at
install time.  Network installs from a server locally on the box over
virtio network don't appear to be noticeably slower than doing it from a
iso.

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Jesse Keating
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