Bug 1677425
| Summary: | RFE: add support for one time kernel/initrd specification for installs | ||
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| Product: | [Community] Virtualization Tools | Reporter: | Dusty Mabe <dustymabe> |
| Component: | virt-manager | Assignee: | Cole Robinson <crobinso> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | berrange, crobinso, gscrivan, tburke, yaneti |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Last Closed: | 2020-01-26 18:56:48 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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*** Bug 1713356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Thanks for the suggestion, this was implemented in virt-manager 2.2.0 with a --install option: ./virt-install --install help bootdev initrd kernel kernel_args kernel_args_overwrite no_install os So, --install kernel=X,initrd=Y --location has kernel= and initrd= options as well, but those are only for pointing to a path relative to the --location $URL that is passed, incase virt-install can't find the media at that location. So for the one time boot behavior, use --install |
Description of problem: The `virt-install --boot` options allows you to specify a kernel and initrd for boot but it is a persistent setting and the machine will always boot with that kernel and initrd. I'd like to be able to specify exactly a kernel and initrd to boot but have that only be effective druing install. So basically the equivalent of this: ``` virt-install --boot kernel=vmlinuz,initrd=initramfs.img,kernel_args="${args}" ``` for --location: virt-install --location $(pwd),kernel=vmlinuz,initrd=initramfs.img,kernel_args="${args}" To be able to be done.