There's been various discussions about changing the x86 default
from 'pc' to 'q35' over the years, but it's unlikely to happen
at the qemu or libvirt level for compatibility reasons. So
let's start using it for new enough OS that support it.
With another fake iso, based on stripped down centos 6.5 boot iso.
Reason we do centos 6.5 is that everything newer also compares
on volume size, and we don't want to store a huge iso in git.
virt-install -n blah -r 1024 --vcpu=1 --disk=/root/vm/blah.qcow2,size=10\
--network=bridge:br-public --pxe --boot=network,rebootTimeout=3
By default, in case of (first) pxe boot failure the VM will simply
stop trying.
By adding the above, VM will re-try pxe boot. ( useful when DHCP not
replys on first attempt.
Libvirt support it and VM XML will look as follow : ( 'bios rebootTimeout'
will be created under OS section. )
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-rhel7.5.0'>hvm</type>
<boot dev='network'/>
<bios rebootTimeout='3'/>
</os>
(crobinso: fix it, add test case)
Allow to set some memory backing options, ex:
--memorybacking access_mode=shared,source_type=anonymous
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Rather than forcing API users to go through the capabilities APIs.
This lets us simplify things in virt-install quite a bit, and is
needed for smarter machine type defaults
This case will still work, but be a bit slower, which is fine. Nowadays
-M virt is much better for virt usage and nearly everyone is using that,
so save us the complication. This was really only useful when
bootstrapping arm virt support
The validation is already handled by libvirt, and setting q35 for
smm=on is overkill and just hardcoding some libvirt logic here.
I think the 'secboot' detection in Guest.py is the preferred
magic here, otherwise let users specify all the correct values.
An emulated backend doesn't require any path, since libvirt will take
care of finding the emulator and managing the storage. However, the
version to emulate can be specified.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Add codec support to virt-install so that it can accommodate
multiple instances of codec configuration.
The commandline argument:
--sound codec0.type=micro,codec1.type=duplex,codec2.type=output
maps to the sound XML below:
<sound model="es1370">
<codec type="micro"/>
<codec type="duplex"/>
<codec type="output"/>
</sound>
Signed-off-by: Anya Harter <aharter@redhat.com>
This type of validation should really be done at the libvirt level,
particularly for a non-mandatory feature like cpuset. Otherwise
it's just more code for us to test which will rarely be hit by users
The copyright headers in every file were chjanged in this previous commit
commit b6dcee8eb7
Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Mar 20 15:00:02 2018 -0400
Use consistent and minimal license header for every file
Where before this they said "
"either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."
Now they just say
"GNU GPLv2"
This fixes it to say "GNU GPLv2 or later" again.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
non-treeinfo redhat only applies to pre RHEL5.4 and very old
Fedora. It's not worth it anymore to slow down all URL lookups
and maintain code complexity to handle such long out of date
distros.
GenericDistro doesn't actually apply to any public trees that I
can find, except for some with TreeInfo. So turn it into
GenericTreeinfoDistro. If random URL trees want to work with
virt-install, add a treeinfo file
Cole Robinson