gnome-boxes/distro integration



Hi,

One of gnome-boxes[1] aims is to provide easy creation of virtual machines.
This includes auto-installation of guest OSes. Currently, we support
auto-installation of Fedora and Windows systems, but we'd like
auto-installation of as many OSes as possible.

Here is a rough overview of how this is handled:
* the user specifies the path to an ISO image
* we use libosinfo[2] to determine if the ISO is an installer, and the OS
  it's an installer for. libosinfo comes with a tools/osinfo-detect util
  to test what is known about an iso. The OS data for libosinfo is stored
  in xml files[3]
* then gnome-boxes uses a FedoraInstaller class to setup a fedora
  auto-installation. On fedora, auto-install is achieved through a
  kickstart file[4][5]

Patches to help support more distributions are really welcome :) If you
need more help, feel free to ask on boxes mailing list (cc'ed) or on our
IRC channel (#boxes on irc.gnome.org).

Have a nice day!

Christophe

[1] https://live.gnome.org/Boxes
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/libosinfo/
[3] http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=libosinfo.git;a=tree;f=data/oses;h=bc018b4b9d9c3f309d8ba2431ffd2af3e4fdf5c8;hb=HEAD
[4] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-boxes/tree/data/fedora.ks
[5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart

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