Re: Replace discover by isenkram in d-i, better integration with virtualizations/clouds
Hi,
On Mon, 04 Dec 2017, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 12/03/2017 05:30 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > In the last years, Petter Rheinholdtsen worked on isenkram[2] with a
> > similar but a bit broader goal. I noticed it has better support
> > of clouds and that it will install some virtualization/cloud-related
> > packages automatically whereas discover does not. It also makes it easier
> > to install the appropriate firmware packages.
>
> Raphael,
>
> Could you give examples of packages that gets installed this way?
open-vm-tools, xserver-xorg-video-vmware, xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse on VMWare VM
xserver-xorg-video-qxl on VM with such video driver (qxl is not true
hardware)
> Also, how is d-i related to cloud? The images aren't generated using d-i
> anyway, so I don't see how the cloud images would be affected.
The official images arent't. That doesn't mean that no users are using
it in VM that they are deploying in clouds.
Cheers,
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