Re: DVD auto install test script
by Will Woods
Oh wow. This looks like a very, very promising start. I'm really excited to get some time to test this some more. First, a quick comment:
----- "James Laska" <jlaska(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> I spoke to Richard Jones on IRC about this. Richard has been
> developing
> libguestfs (http://libguestfs.org - a library for accessing virtual
> disk
> images). He suggested that guestfs (aka python-libguestfs) could be
> used to accomplish this and provided a sample python snippet that
> might
> help accomplish what you'd need (see attached python file). This
> looks
> promising, might be worth exploring as a way to provide the ks.cfg to
> the guest without needing to modify the initrd.img.
Yeah, you could definitely create the disk image in advance and pull the ks.cfg off it before installing - or we could create an *extra* disk image and pretend it's a USB flash drive or similar. We'd just need to remember to modify the kickstart to not format all drives (or to use libvirt to remove the drive once we've loaded the ks.cfg/updates.img/etc.)
Either way would work equally well, but to test all of the stuff in the installation test plan we'll eventually need to implement both methods *and* the http/ftp methods.
I think the local-disk methods are probably simpler to start out with, though.
Anyway: thanks for all your hard work, Liam!
-w
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