From: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>
To: Charles Duffy <charles@dyfis.net>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KVM_AUTOTEST] unattended installs
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:25:39 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244028339.6333.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h04jek$1k1$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 20:25 -0500, Charles Duffy wrote:
> David Huff wrote:
> > I had some issues getting the guest to read a vvfat floppy passed to the guest
> > via qemu option "-fda fat:floppy:rw:./floppy" it would pass the dir as a vfat
> > disk and the guest could mount it, however guest could not read the files on the
> > vdisk......
>
> I'm surprised you opted to work around this with a loop mount rather
> than using mtools, given the former approach's need for root.
Autotest runs the tests as root, so we will have root privileges
anyway...
> Granted, getting files off the ISO _could_ also require root -- in my
> own analog to these scripts, I use iso-read (from the libcdio package):
>
> # Pull kernel and initrd
> iso-read --image "$OS_ISO" \
> --extract /isolinux/vmlinuz \
> --output-file "$TMPDIR/vmlinuz"
> iso-read --image "$OS_ISO" \
> --extract /isolinux/initrd.img \
> --output-file "$TMPDIR/initrd.img"
> # Write floppy image
> mformat -C -f 1440 -i "$TMPDIR"/floppy.img ::
> mcopy "$TMPDIR"/floppy.d/* -i "$TMPDIR"/floppy.img ::/
>
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Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
Software Engineer (QE)
Red Hat - Emerging Technologies
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-03 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-02 22:24 [KVM_AUTOTEST] unattended installs David Huff
2009-06-02 22:24 ` [PATCH][KVM_AUTOTEST] added script for unattended install David Huff
2009-06-02 22:24 ` [PATCH][KVM_AUTOTEST] modified sample config file to include one example of " David Huff
2009-06-02 22:30 ` [KVM_AUTOTEST] unattended installs David Huff
2009-06-03 1:25 ` Charles Duffy
2009-06-03 11:25 ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues [this message]
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