> 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 manually the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and added the parameters.
BTW: I couldn't find a way to tell it to map the NIC to a bridge in the virt-manager, which parameter should it be?
> 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.
I found a workaround for this - qemu-img convert to VHDX, then - no need for ISO ;)
Thanks for your help. I hope within the next few hours to record a video and upload to youtube about using virt-p2v.
Rich.
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