On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Steven Haigh wrote:

> Hi Pat & all,
>
> With my toying with installing SL7 as a Xen guest, I've found an issue
> that I'd like to experiment with...
>
> Pat: Can you please tell me or point me to how you create the vmlinux /
> initrd for the pxeboot images?
>
> I'm pretty sure that I have to turn on the following options:
> CONFIG_XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND=y
> CONFIG_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND=y
>
> As such, I'd like to try building the same vmlinuz / initrd with both
> those two options enabled.
>
> This should allow a proper unattended install of SL7 as a Xen guest. The
> pain in the backside is that they also have to be enabled in the SL7
> kernel package that needs to be installed - but I have other ways around
> that.... (i think).
>
> -- 
> Steven Haigh
>
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>

The compose process uses pungi which calls lorax.  Lorax is part of EL/SL 
7 . You can run lorax standalone if needed.  Lorax needs a "tree" to build 
against.  Pungi can provide that tree or you could just use a existing SL 
tree.

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# lorax -p $PRODUCT -v $VERSION -r $COMPOSE  -s REPOSITORY OUTPUTDIR
lorax -p SL -v 7.0 -r BETA -s <sl tree loc>  /srv/compose/$PRODUCT/
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