Re: Express Installation for Live medias

[Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano fidencio org>]

Hi Zeeshan,

The main reasons being:

1. The OSs we have so far seen express installation supported for,
either don't have live medias (windows) or have both installer and
live media so we give express install option for installer variant of
the media (Fedora).

Yeah. I'd like to see the express installation for both cases, but it's just my humble opinion.

2. To launch and create a VM as quickly as possible for live case.

What is Boxes doing special for live medias to "launch and create a VM as quickly as possible"?

What does it mean? One page less in the box creating wizard?

> Is that some limitation on Fedora side? I'm asking basically for one
> big reason: and about Ubuntu?
>
> I don't think Ubuntu provides an ISOs besides the Live one and I think we
> would like to support them.

Sure. It actually provides both so I think you just need to override
this boolean property from InstallerMedia:

    public virtual bool live { get { return os_media == null ||
os_media.live; } }

 in UnattendedInstaller:

    public override bool live { get { return !os_media.installer; } }

Yeah, I remember this in the code and I've been using it overriding the property (debian/ubuntu testing).

And about what was designed for this functionality?

Does Jakub agree to have express installations for live medias?

Best Regards,

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Fabiano Fidêncio