Re: [Libguestfs] few things I found about virt-p2v

1. Is it possible to add to the virt-p2v-make-disk program a parameter > to add kernel parameters? (right now I have to create the image and edit > manually the grub.conf file in the image in order to edit them) - this > could help in situations where someone cannot setup PXE. The real issue here is what file in the image to edit and how. You could try editing virt-p2v-make-disk (or a local copy of it) and add something to the long virt-builder command right near the end of the file. I would suggest adding an --edit option such as: --edit '/etc/grub/grub.conf: s/linux (.*)/linux $1 your_parameter=foo/' \ At the end I simply used guestmount to mount the image, and edited

> 2. Is there a way to create the image as a bootable ISO? Hyper-V for > example, doesn't like standard "hard disk" images. I see that kiwi has this > functionality, but it's only for SuSE. I actually tried at one point to create a bootable ISO from a virt-builder image, but totally failed to make anything work ... You could try the kickstart approach (ie. virt-p2v-make-kickstart) but then you're in a world of other painful tools such as livecd-creator.

Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org