Re: Best way to install guest when it is not listed in output of osinfo-query os
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 06:52:46AM +0100, john doe wrote:
Hello all,
I would like to install Debian Bullseye using virt-install, as part of
the command I usually specify the OS used with the option '--os-variant'.
This works great untill Buster ('debian10'), but now the guest is
Bullseye ('debian11') and is not listed in the output of 'osinfo-query
os' (1).
If I don't use the '--os-variant' flag I get the following warning:
"WARNING No operating system detected, VM performance may suffer.
Specify an OS with --os-variant for optimal results."
Should I ignore the warning or what is the best way forward to install a
Debian Bullseye guest?
Both the host and the guest are Debian 11.
1) https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/12/msg00742.html
You can just use '--os-variant debian10', it will work fine.
Alternatively, you can install a newer version of the osinfo database
by using osinfo-db-import. Doing so is probably overkill for your use
case.
Pino, do you think it would make sense to rebase osinfo-db in the
next Debian 11 update? Or at least cherry-pick the debian11 entry so
that things work as expected when creating a Debian 11 VM on a Debian
11 host? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980744 was
AFAICT intended to achieve just that.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization