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

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 07:55 +0100, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 10:50 PM 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.

Agreed that we should avoid this kind of collision.

> > I'd
> > expect the generated filename to be sometime like tmpfile output.
> 
> One thing that we could easily do is generate the script in
> ~/.cache/virt-manager/<random_generated_per_vm_name>/fedora.ks ...
> 
> The problem we had in the past, if my memory is not playing tricks on
> me, is that some distros (or Windows?) expected a specific filename.
> Although it my not apply to initrd injection.

I remember spending some time trying to convince d-i to pick up a
configuration file *not* called preseed.cfg, with little success.

Using a randomly-generated directory name would nicely sidestep
the issue.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization