On 8/23/2011 11:17 AM, Peter J. Pouliot wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 09:43:06AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 8/23/2011 9:02 AM, Peter J. Pouliot wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am not comfortable with the idea of adding it to the install media
>>>> directly, but I'm not the one who produces that so I'll let others weigh
>>>> in. I could see supplying it as a driver disk image, via the centosplus
>>>> repo, or possibly a separate installer image similar to the server iso we
>>>> used to ship. I'd like to hear some opinions from others on this.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm open to this idea as well. If it's a way for centos users to running on hyperv to install enlightened natively, i'm all for it.
>>
>> Can hyperv provide a 2nd virtualized device (cd/floppy) pointed at a
>> host/network file during the install for the drivers?
>
> Well it would be unecessary to do this in at the hyperv layer since we can handle this in the installer.
The installer has to have a device to use that appears in the virtual
environment. Or you have to rebuild a non-standard installer.
> However one could supply a file as a floppy/cd etc if they wanted.
That's what I meant - just download an image file that will appear as
the (virtual) device holding the drivers during the install process -
and document the commands to load them.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com