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+# The files in this directory (/opt/so/saltstack/local/salt/libvirt/images/coreol9Small) are generated by createvm.sh. They are then distributed to the hypervisors where a storage pool will be created then the image can be installed.
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+# the source location will be /opt/so/saltstack/local/salt/libvirt/imaages/coreol9Small
+# this will need to change to save the images to /nsm 
+baseimagefiles:
+  file.recurse:
+    - name: /var/lib/libvirt/images/coreol9Small/
+    - source: salt://libvirt/images/coreol9Small/