Bug 592172
| Summary: | RFE: Add parameter to set guest machine type | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | zhanghaiyan <yoyzhang> |
| Component: | python-virtinst | Assignee: | Cole Robinson <crobinso> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | berrange, dallan, ddumas, kxiong, llim, mhideo, syeghiay, xen-maint, zpeng |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: |
virt-install now includes the --machine option. This is useful for manually choosing the guest machine type to emulate.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-05-19 13:45:17 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 655920 | ||
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Description
zhanghaiyan
2010-05-14 05:54:35 UTC
This feature request did not get resolved in time for Feature Freeze for the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release and has now been denied. You may re-open your request by requesting your support representative to propose it for the next release. Exposing it in virt-install is reasonable, but I think we should be wary of exposing machine type in the UI for virt-manager since I think it will seriously confuse users. With machine types like 'rhel-5.4.0', people will very likely think they should be making this match the OS version of their guest, when in fact this is refering to the host ABI & nothing todo with guest OS. Not sure why this is marked as 6.0, it's not hugely important IMO. Moving to 6.1 --machine options added for virt-install: http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/python-virtinst/rev/6d0e9e6adda1 Maybe for virt-manager we can only expose the machine type if using a non-intel arch. Fix built in python-virtinst-0.500.5-1.el6 Verified with python-virtinst-0.500.5-1.el6
1.Run virt-install --help
Virtualization Platform Options:
--machine=MACHINE The machine type to emulate
2.Run virt-install -n rhel55-i386 -r 2048 -l http://download.englab.nay.redhat.com/pub/rhel/released/RHEL-5-Server/U5/i386/os/ --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel55-i386.img,size=6 --machine=rhel5.5.0
3.virsh dump-xml rhel55-i386
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='rhel5.5.0'>hvm</type>
<boot dev='hd'/>
</os>
Verification is passed
verified this bug with: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 5 19:58:31 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux python-virtinst-0.500.5-3.el6.noarch libvirt-0.8.7-17.el6.x86_64 passed.
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New Contents:
* virt-install now includes the --machine option. This is useful for manually choosing the guest machine type to emulate. (BZ#592172)
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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-* virt-install now includes the --machine option. This is useful for manually choosing the guest machine type to emulate. (BZ#592172)+virt-install now includes the --machine option. This is useful for manually choosing the guest machine type to emulate.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0636.html |