From 536e7ff571614e53702a0f2f8e9e888f8dd87fa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 17:05:57 -0400
Subject: try to automate booting to d-i

---
 kvm-manager | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'kvm-manager')

diff --git a/kvm-manager b/kvm-manager
index a46f26a..800bf92 100755
--- a/kvm-manager
+++ b/kvm-manager
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ up() {
 
     CDISO="$OWNERHOME/vms/$VMNAME/cd.iso"
     NETBOOT="$OWNERHOME/vms/$VMNAME/netboot"
+    DEBIAN_INSTALLER="$OWNERHOME/vms/$VMNAME/debian-installer"
     KERNEL="$OWNERHOME/vms/$VMNAME/kernel"
     INITRD="$OWNERHOME/vms/$VMNAME/initrd"
     KVMARGS=
@@ -110,6 +111,14 @@ up() {
         if [ "$CMDLINE" ]; then
             KERNEL_CMDLINE="$CMDLINE"
         fi
+    elif [ -e "$DEBIAN_INSTALLER" ] ; then
+        # FIXME: this should be generalized to pick the version and
+        # the architecture -- perhaps an empty $DEBIAN_INSTALLER would
+        # default to the latest sensible version, but its contents
+        # could otherwise select the version (and the arch if
+        # specified)
+	KVMARGS="-kernel /usr/lib/debian-installer/images/9/amd64/text/debian-installer/amd64/linux -initrd /usr/lib/debian-installer/images/9/amd64/text/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz -no-reboot"
+        KERNEL_CMDLINE="console=ttyS0,115200n8 -- console=ttyS0,115200n8"
     elif [ -e "$NETBOOT" ] ; then
         BOOTCHOICE=n
     elif [ -e "$CDISO" ] && [ -e $(readlink -f "$CDISO") ] ; then
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