On Monday, February 6, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 02/06/2012 10:58 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote:Cole --What's the workaround to auto-start Xen PV's? (or is there not a way?)Seems like we could just implement this however needed (if xenpv… do thisinstead…), if virtinstall won't do it for us.The autostarting code could just be conditionally enabled if virt-install isnew enough (just a grep of the help output) so that's not the issue.The issue is that current koan code manually passed a kernel + initrd for thePV guest to boot. That's the only install scenario for PV guests AFAICT. Andthis is only available via the virt-install in a version newer than what's inRHEL5.
The workaround could be to make PV installs work like qcreate install_locationinstalls, which is basically the same as direct kernel/initrd boot but yourely on virt-install to pull the kernel/initrd from the install tree.
Sincecobbler tracks this info it would probably 'just work' with a tiny patch butsomeone would need to test. And this has been supported on virt-installcommand line since probably rhel5.1
Thanks,Cole