Bug 874346

Summary:	virt-install should allow injecting files into subdirectories of the initramfs.
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Tom Prince <tom.prince>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
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Description Tom Prince 2012-11-08 00:54:03 UTC

Description of problem:

virt-install only allows injecting files into the root of the initramfs.
When using anaconda kickstart scripts, I have been informed that only files in
/run/install will be accessible in the post-install script, which means that virt-install doesn't have a a way of injecting files to be accesible then.

(Specifying a directory to --inject-initrd doesn't work either, do to the use of shutil.copy).

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2013-04-21 19:12:26 UTC

virtinst has been merged into virt-manager.git. Moving all virtinst bugs to the virt-manager component.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2013-09-27 16:26:01 UTC

Thanks for the report, sorry for the long delay with no response.

(In reply to Tom Prince from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> virt-install only allows injecting files into the root of the initramfs.
> When using anaconda kickstart scripts, I have been informed that only files
> in
> /run/install will be accessible in the post-install script, which means that
> virt-install doesn't have a a way of injecting files to be accesible then.


Doesn't seem to be the case for me, I have a test suite that verifies anaconda can read a kickstart for RHEL4-6, F14+ and it all works. The only caveat is F16 will only pass through a .ks or .cfg file but later Fedora's don't have that problem. So rather than complicate this already complicated code I'm just going to say WONTFIX