ISOs: Is there a better way?

Red Squirrel

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I just discovered the hard way that the ISOs have to be in a rather specific folder (template/iso of a datastore) and it does not handle subdirectories. I have 250GB worth of ISOs all neatly organized by OS, version, etc... Is there a way I can browse through that when installing an OS? I really don't want to have to recopy all of those to another location and have them all in a single folder.
 
Without digging too deep into editing the web gui, you could add each parent folder as a storage directory. Or if you only want to boot the vm, you could edit their respective configuration file and specify the iso file path.

Code:
ide2: iso_storage:[B]iso/linux/debian/debian-6.0.7-amd64-netinst.iso[/B],media=cdrom,size=168M
 
if you like the idea, and if it works (never tried), you could also store your iso in other structured folders, and then use symlinks in the /iso folder

I store my isos elsewhere (nas) and then copy on /iso just what I need frequently

Marco
 
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Just tried, I can confirm that symlinks will work. Usage is as follows:
Code:
 ln -s /path/to/file /path/to/symlink
 

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