LizardKings wrote: > When we create a new virtual machine with cobbler / koan the xen vm > config file is created with the following line: > > disk = [ "file:/var/lib/xen/images/xennode1-disk0,xvda,w" ] > > Is it possible to change this before the installation begins? > > to: > > disk = [ "tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/xennode1-disk0,xvda,w" ] >
This is not yet implemented, but read this: https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2009-May/004272.html Patches welcome if you want to push this along. > An installation with the "file" option make our running and existing xen > virtual machines in the whole rhel5.3 cluster unresponsive ( 8 x dom0 ). > > As a workaround we use now virt-install who uses tap:aio. > The root cause of the bad default is in python-virtinst, which is the underlying library that koan and virt-install both use. While we may work around it in koan, the proper thing to do is to have the default be in python-virtinst, not done in virt-install. > DG > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
