Andrew Brown wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > That's ok, we're chasing lots of random features at the same time, > so no > rush on this one. Ultimately we have a pretty good solution now for > supporting foreign OS's by using "cobbler image add" and "koan with > --image" to install ISO's, so we have a route to installing > Windows and > foreign OS's in fullvirt that way. > > Physical cloning tools would be interesting but I think they are not > nearly as critical (and would be a case where I'd rather see p2v > migration first). > > When referring to dd (I imagine over NFS), how slow does slow mean? > Just curious there (I can imagine pretty slow). > > Attachment seems to be missing? Can you resend it? > > --Michael > > > I attached it, I really did!... maybe not. > > Anyways, I don't have an exact time, but I'd guess it takes 30-60 > minutes for 40 gigabytes over nfs maybe. I'm not sure, I usually > leave it and go do something else. > > Also, I like that this will be immediately supported through the > distro add command by passing in the kernel and initrd. So once this > works, there's nothing else to do except maybe have a convenience > function. > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
30-60's not horrific if you really need it done. Just being kernel+initrd+kernel arguments (--kopts) is fantastically easy to set up. Also very nice that the embedded script is Python :) See if you can get it going via partimage, and either way, let's set up a Wiki page for this showing the instructions on how to build the live image and use it in cobbler. I asked earlier about hosting the image via torrent on Fedora infrastructure, and it's possible to get space for that so folks do not have to build it. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
