Bug 182476

Summary: xen guest installation should provide an option to use local CD/DVD installation media
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ravi Terala <rterala>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Ravi Terala 2006-02-22 19:50:53 UTC 
Description of problem:
When CD/DVD media is available, the anaconda installer for xen guest should use
it. This allows faster installations.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC5-test3

How reproducible:
1. use xen-guestinstall.py to install.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /usr/sbin/xen-guestinstall.py
2. It does not provide an option to point it to the local CD/DVD installation media.
3.
  
Actual results:
Using local CD/DVD installation media is not possible.

Expected results:
An option should exist that allows local CD/DVD installation media to be used
while installating xen guest.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-02-22 21:25:04 UTC 
There's no mechanism to export CD devices to a paravirtualized guest, so this
isn't really possible.  You could mount the DVD iso and NFS export it from the
host to the guest for something like this to work.
Comment 2 Ravi Terala 2006-03-07 13:04:05 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> There's no mechanism to export CD devices to a paravirtualized guest, so this
> isn't really possible.  You could mount the DVD iso and NFS export it from the
> host to the guest for something like this to work.

Is it possible to export the file system/directory as below? Just brain storming..

1. Unmount existing CD/DVD media. Assume CD/DVD drive is at /dev/hdd.
2. Change the guest config to use the phy media at /dev/hdd.
3. Boot the guest os.
4. Let anaconda know that installation media is at the new phy drive.