[virt-tools-list] LXC distro container install script and libosinfo

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 04:20:42PM +0200, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on getting virt-install (and later virt-manager) to create
> the rootfs of distro containers using data from libosinfo. The idea is
> to check if the distro has an install script with lxc injection method
> and run it.
> 
> >From what I did on my local virt-manager tree, is to use --os-variant to
> designate the distro to install.
> 
> However libosinfo install scripts can have a bunch of required and
> optional parameters... I'm wondering what would be the best way to get
> these values input by the user.
> 
> There are basically two options:
>   1/ add an option for each possible install script parameter
>   2/ add a generic option like what osinfo-install-script does
> 
> Do you have any opinion on that?

The list of possible install script parameters is undefined, since
the end user can add arbitrary data to the libosinfo database. Thus
option 2 is the only viable approach I reckon.


Regards,
Daniel
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