System Role
A new step during the installation of SUSE Linux allows to quickly adjust several settings proposed for the installation:
- Default System - Nothing is modified compared to plain installation
- KVM Virtualization Host - A system with KVM pattern, /home does not get a separate partition
- Xen Virtualization Host - A system with Xen pattern, /home does not get a separate partition
System Roles are defined in the control.xml file present in the root of the installation medium. See the control file documentation.
System Roles are implemented in yast2-installation-3.1.174, which will land in the upcoming SLES12-SP2. They were requested in FATE#317481.
In the installation workflow, after the Registration and optional Add-ons, we come to selecting the System Role:
Then in the next step we can see the effect. It is either the Default System:
or the KVM Virtualization Host:
