ISOs: Is there a better way?

[Red Squirrel]

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.

 

[kcrawford]

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.

ide2: iso_storage:[B]iso/linux/debian/debian-6.0.7-amd64-netinst.iso[/B],media=cdrom,size=168M

 

[m.ardito]

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

 

[kcrawford]

Just tried, I can confirm that symlinks will work. Usage is as follows:

 ln -s /path/to/file /path/to/symlink

 

[m.ardito]

Just tried, I can confirm that symlinks will work.[/CODE]

good! You were faster than me I'll use them too, in the future.

Thanks, @kcrawford!
Marco