Re: [KVM_AUTOTEST] unattended installs

[Charles Duffy <charles@dyfis.net>]

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.

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 ::/