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[Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Fundamentally VMbuilder is a good idea however it lacks support for certain KVM features.  Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of these being missing:

1. Support for grub2

2. Support for LVM encapsulation – Ubuntu versions starting with 9.10 have grub2 and that can boot from a totally LVM-encapsulated disk with no /boot file system (only a /boot directory in the root LV in the root VG.)  This is also a work-around for LP #604335 (see comment #12)

3. Support for virtio disk. VMbuilder builds VMs with emulated SCSI disks which are slower than virtio disks.  I have real-world customers who refuse to use KVM guests due to I/O performance issues.

Are there plans to support these features or should I fork and do the coding myself?

Thanks