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Re: VMbuilder Creates Sub-Optimal VMs

 


--- On Thu, 11/25/10, Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Vmbuilder] VMbuilder Creates Sub-Optimal VMs
> To: "Kenneth Stailey" <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: vmbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, November 25, 2010, 4:17 AM
> 2010/11/24 Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>> 3. Support for virtio disk.
> >>>> There's no particular reason why this
> isn't supported.
> >>> So LP #604335 has been fixed?
> >> Not that I know of?
> > So because VMbuilder doesn't build on virtio disk it
> never encounters LP
> > #604335 "grub2 fails to install on virtio disk".
> 
> Right. We could e.g. just go with grub1 for virtio disks.
> 
> > Switching to virtio disk via an execscript after
> building on emulated SCSI
> > ("sda") also doesn't encounter installing grub on
> virtio since grub
> > installation happens sooner.
> >
> > Do grub updates have issues like LP 604335 does?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean?

If installing grub2 on virtio disk fails, does updating it fail too?




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