Install Boot disk Partition Type

* This code helps to partition boot disk eithier with or without LVM
* when "--partition-type plain" is used standard partitoin will occur on boot disk
* By default, LVM partition will occur during installation
* This code will exit, when user initiates with wrong value

Signed-off-by: priyama2 <[email protected]>

installvm.py

@@ -348,12 +348,20 @@ def createKickstart(self):
                 lstr = "telnet\njava\n%end"
                 urlstring = "--url=nfs://"+vmParser.confparser('repo', 'RepoIP') + ':/var/www/html' + self.repoDir  
 
-        if vmParser.args.fs_type == 'btrfs':
-            addksstring = "autopart --type=lvm --fstype=btrfs"
-        elif vmParser.args.fs_type == 'ext4':
-            addksstring = "autopart --type=lvm --fstype=ext4"
-        else:
-            addksstring = "autopart --type=lvm --fstype=xfs"
+        exit_nosupport=0
+        if vmParser.args.partition_type not in ['lvm', 'plain']:
+            logging.info("Aborting Installation : as partition type %s is not supported or not valid" % vmParser.args.partition_type)
+            exit_nosupport=1
+
+        if vmParser.args.fs_type not in ['xfs','ext4', 'btrfs']:
+            logging.info("Aborting Installation : as filesystem type %s is not supported or not valid" % vmParser.args.fs_type)
+            exit_nosupport=1
+
+        if exit_nosupport:
+            exit(1)
+
+        addksstring = "autopart --type=%s --fstype=%s" % (vmParser.args.partition_type,vmParser.args.fs_type)
+
 
         ksparm = sftp.open('/var/www/html'+self.ksinst, 'w')
         sshd_file = ''

lib/configparser.py

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ def parse_args(self, argv=None):
         parser.add_argument(
             '--install-protocol' , help='Mode of Install Protocol ex: http, ftp, nfs',default='http')
         parser.add_argument('--fs-type' ,help='RootFS type ex: xfs, ext4, btrfs',default='xfs')
+        parser.add_argument('--partition-type' ,help='Boot disk partition type with or without lvm ex: plain or lvm',default='lvm')
         parser.add_argument(
             '--set-boot-order', help='yes/True to set the boot disk order', required=False)
         parser.add_argument(