KVM, virt-manager, etc.

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:44:25AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:19:50PM +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:34:56AM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
> > > In case anyone missed my blog post about it last week, the (admittedly
> > > quick and dirty) wiki page is at:
> > > 
> > >    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KvmVirtManagerEtc
> > 
> >  * We should provide reasonable defaults for every aspect of creating a new
> >    VM.  The experience we are aiming for is to enable a new Ubuntu
> >    installation to have a virtual guest created immediately, with no
> >    decisions necessary: this should be a single command, or
> >    "next->next->next->finish" operation.
> >    
> >    - Should point to an installable Ubuntu image of some sort by default.  I
> >      have ISOs lying around, but most servers won't.  What can we do here?
> 
> Perhaps look for *.iso in ~/, ~/Desktop, and /tmp, then if none are
> found, offer to download an appropriate one, or navigate to a different
> location?

The server install is small enough that I think a network install might be a
reasonable default.

Alternatively, perhaps if "virtualization" is selected as an install-time
profile, the packages on the CD could be copied into a cache and used for
creating VMs.

-- 
 - mdz