Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/13] tests/vm: fedora autoinstall, using serial console

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 03:10:03PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > > +        # shutdown
> > > +        self.ssh_root("poweroff")
> > > +        self.console_wait("sleep state S5")
> > > +        self.wait()
> > > +
> > > +        if os.path.exists(img):
> > > +            os.remove(img)
> > > +        os.rename(img_tmp, img)
> > > +        os.remove(iso)
> > > +        self.print_step("All done")
> > > +
> > > +if __name__ == "__main__":
> > > +    sys.exit(basevm.main(FedoraVM))
> 
> > Maybe you could also do a kickstart installation instead?
> 
> Well, the tricky part is how to get the kickstart/autoinstall/whatever
> file passed to the guest then, in a way that works for every guest ...

Libosinfo reports use of cdrom, disk, floppy or initrd injection for
providing the installer automation file. Distros support one of more
of these methods, but there's no single one that works everywhere
afaik.

FWIW, virt-install recently got ability to auto-install images using
the libosinfo installer files. We don't have coverage for any BSD's
though in libosinfo at this time though.

Regards,
Daniel

[1] https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db/tree/master/data/install-script
    The <injection-method> element in the XML files
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