Hmm.

Another blasphemous thought might be to just shell out to the qemu and Xen command line tools directly if preserving these options are important.

Someone would have to do the legwork of making it though :)

On Monday, February 6, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Greg Swift wrote:

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 08:05, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com> wrote:
- RHEL5 virt-install doesn't have the --boot option. This is used to install
xen PV guests. We could work around this by enabling install_location support
for PV, which xen + virt-install have supported in RHEL5 forever. But not sure
how that meshes with existing deployments getting a cobbler upgrade.

Hmm, who is using Xen PV out there?   Speak up if you are.

I'm willing to shoot it.


still using it, but we can stay with our existing koan and just not upgrade
 
- RHEL5 virt-install doesn't had --disk driver_type= for qemu_driver_type
cobbler option. Not as big of a deal, users just can't specify that value on
RHEL5.

I don't think Cobbler users ever specified anything other than the default.
 

But in that vein, currently all koan image/qemu/xen guest creation is broken
on any RHEL5 since October, due to unconditional use of guest.set_autostart
API which isn't in RHEL5.

That's interesting as it does seem to confirm that nobody is using it.

Which seems to align with my thoughts that:

(A)  people don't upgrade too often
(B)  the field is still largely VMware :)

So, yeah

hrmph.. well i was about to upgrade to latest in epel (my production systems are on 2.0.11)

so is this working or broken in 2.2.1 ?
 

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