Description of problem: Red Hat EL 5.4 (and CentOS 5.4) support virtio block and network drivers. This should be represented in osdict to allow Red Hat 5.4 guest installs to take advantage of virtio drivers. Currently only a generic Red Hat EL 5 entry exists in osdict. Confirmed by installing CentOS 5.4 from original install media with virtio block and network drivers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [psj@localhost ~]$ rpm -q python-virtinst python-virtinst-0.500.0-5.fc11.noarch (Fedora 11 with virt-preview) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Choose "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5" from the OS options at guest install Actual results: Guest is installed without virtio block or network devices Expected results: An OS option for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4" should exist and guest should be installed using virtio block and network devices Additional info:
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Thanks for the report This was filed before as bug #477752 and we chose to support it by adding a "Linux/Generic 2.6.25 kernel with virtio" option I think there are longer term plans around using libosinfo to better support fine-grained OS versions like this *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 477752 ***
For the benefit of those who find this bug, an osdict entry for rhel5.4+ using virtio disk and net was added in python-virtinst 0.500.1: http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/python-virtinst/rev/bb6c6b4cf8ae
Yes, sorry about that, I intended to comment in the original bug to that effect but I forgot! Even though it's a bit hokey to have a RHEL5 and a RHEL5.4+ option, we have someone working on a proper os dictionary and API which will expose much finer grained OS entries like RHEL5.0 RHEL5.1 RHEL5.2 etc. Since we will eventually have a specific 5.4 entry, I figured it doesn't hurt to do now (since it has been requested enough).