[virt-tools-list] [virt-install PATCH v2 00/14] Add support for unattended installations

[Peter Crowther]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, 21:51 Cole Robinson, <crobinso at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> Another piece to consider: the script is generated in a predictable path
> ~/.cache/virt-manager/fedora.ks for example. It's not likely to happen
> but two virt-install runs could overwrite each others scripts here. I'd
> expect the generated filename to be sometime like tmpfile output.
>
> It wasn't clear to me how to actually ask libosinfo to write to a
> different pathname though, and we would likely need to extend the initrd
> inject logic to handle file rename before injection or something like
> that. But it's worth considering
>

Worth knowing for us - we rebuild quite large sets of VMs in parallel using
virt-install with a homebrewed unattended install. Ours sidesteps possible
collisions as each script uses a directory based on the pid to assemble the
relevant files.

Peter

>
> Thanks,
> Cole
>
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