[virt-tools-list] [virt-manager PATCH] installer: Prefer "cdrom" over "floppy"

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 12:49 PM Peter Crowther
<peter.crowther at melandra.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 11:34, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 11:27:36AM +0100, Peter Crowther wrote:
>> > On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 11:18, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 12:00:56PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
>> > > > Instead of using "floppy" as the way to perform unattended installations
>> > > > for Windoes, let's prefer using "cdrom" instead.
>> > >
>> > > Aren't there versions of windows which /only/ support "floppy", which
>> > > would require us to preferentially use "cdrom" but fallback to "floppy"
>> > > for older versions ?

Daniel,

Older versions of Windows would require floppy. However:
- There are no floppy support for VMs using q35 in some OSes;
- mtools has been orphaned on Fedora;

With those two things in mind, I'd happily not support those systems
as part of a new feature for virt-install.
Still, if you prefer (and Cole agrees), I'd be okay providing a
fallback code to use floppy as the injection method for Windows and
keep supporting Windows XP.

>> > >
>> >
>> > Not for many, many years.  Even Windows 2000 enabled you to burn a CD with
>> > a winnt.sif answer file on it; I've not checked further back.  How far back
>> > do we wish to support?
>>
>> libosinfo provides install scripts back to XP vintage
>>
> All fine - CD-only unattended installation was well established by that point.
>

Peter,

Are you sure about this? I couldn't start a unattended installation
using a second cdrom containing the winnit.sif file on it.

> - Peter
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Fabiano Fidêncio