On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:45:37AM +0800, Li Ming wrote: > Hi, > How can I pass the ks argument to a guest during install? I am > writing an auto install python script,I can use virt-install --location > install_tree --extra-args ks=...., but this will active the network, we > want to mirror a true DVD install. If use virt-install --cdrom will > solve this issue, we have a bad way to pass ks argument,uncompress the > ISO,update the syslinux kernel args,then build the ISO again,but this > will consume big resource,not a good way. Does someone have good > suggestion for me to pass ks arg to kernel while using virt-install > --cdrom in python script?
It is only posible to pass kernel boot args when booting off kernel/initrd direction (ie --location). With --cdrom the BIOS is in charge. So if you need to pass args, then you'll have to modify your ISO image to include them directly. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
