how to automate installation of kvm guests

how to automate installation of kvm guests

[Miguel Araujo]

Hello all,

I'm interested in automate linux guests installation. First I haven't 
been able to guess if the gfxboot issues with Ubuntu have been solved 
(changelog searching has given zero results), so I thought about 
installing a debootstrap system in a file mounted in loopback mode. 
would be KVM able to boot a file like this? Second I might be having to 
do a bunch of installations in soon future and I'm not interested in 
doing it from CD, is there any way apart cloning the images and 
reconfiguring them after booting?

Thank you very much in advanced, Regards
    Miguel


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Re: how to automate installation of kvm guests

[Anthony Liguori]

Miguel Araujo wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm interested in automate linux guests installation. First I haven't 
> been able to guess if the gfxboot issues with Ubuntu have been solved 
> (changelog searching has given zero results), so I thought about 
> installing a debootstrap system in a file mounted in loopback mode. 
> would be KVM able to boot a file like this? Second I might be having to 
> do a bunch of installations in soon future and I'm not interested in 
> doing it from CD, is there any way apart cloning the images and 
> reconfiguring them after booting?
>   

http://hg.codemonkey.ws/gfxboot-disable

and

http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/KVMTest

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Thank you very much in advanced, Regards
>     Miguel
>
>
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Re: how to automate installation of kvm guests

[Miguel Araujo]

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Thank you Anthony for your program. I have downloaded it and it works 
great! Until now I was generating the iso without gfxboot doing changes 
by hand. This is going to let me work faster, thanks.

Thanks a lot for the kvmtest information too.

Regards,
     Miguel
> Miguel Araujo wrote:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm interested in automate linux guests installation. First I haven't 
>> been able to guess if the gfxboot issues with Ubuntu have been solved 
>> (changelog searching has given zero results), so I thought about 
>> installing a debootstrap system in a file mounted in loopback mode. 
>> would be KVM able to boot a file like this? Second I might be having to 
>> do a bunch of installations in soon future and I'm not interested in 
>> doing it from CD, is there any way apart cloning the images and 
>> reconfiguring them after booting?
>>   
>>     
>
> http://hg.codemonkey.ws/gfxboot-disable
>
> and
>
> http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/KVMTest
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>   
>> Thank you very much in advanced, Regards
>>     Miguel
>>
>>
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