Re: [PATCH] KVM test: unattended installation cleanup

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:44 -0200, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> 
> This patch does the following things:
> 
> - Drop the built-in tftp/dhcp based unatteded installation for the
> following reason:
> 
>   1 It's based on slirp and was not supported by major
>   distributions. It's only used for linux guest installation and we
>   can simply replace it with the -kernel method used by network
>   installation.
>   2 The configuration was complex and hard to be shared with network
>   based installation. After using -kernel method, most of the
>   configurations could be shared and easy to be configurated.
> 
>   In order to achieve this:
> 
>   1 a new option 'boot_path' is used to specifiy the path of the
>   kernel/initrd from the medium.
>   2 autoyast file is detected through the extra_params instead of
>   kernel_args (which is dropped with tftp option).
> 
> - Re-strucutre the unattaneded installation related configurations and
>   make them easy to be used and configurated.
> 
> - Move cdrom related params into unattended_install.cdrom variants,
>   as there's no need to launch with cdrom when testing a guest
>   installed from network.
> 
> Changes from v1:
> - Make possible to execute parallel guest installation (the 1st version
> of the patch was using a unique path for initrd.img and vmlinuz inside
> the host filesystem).
> - Reorganize some of the KVM autotest defaults
> 
> Tested with RHEL/Fedora/Windows installation. OpenSUSE/SLES is untested.

Oh, by the way, I've tested the patch with OpenSUSE 11.3 and it works
like a charm. I am really really happy to get rid of slirp code
dependency, thank you very much Jason!

Lucas