The man page for cobbler says: virt-name (optional) (Virt-only) what the Virt guest name should start with. Creating multiple images on a machine will cause increasing numbers to be appended to this name. The default is "virtguest". When I specify a virt-name of RH4U5 and try and create multiple guests using koan: koan --virt --server=kickstart.mtc.ibsys.com \ --profile=rhel4u5-beta_xen_domU It creates the first one named RH4U5 but does not append a number to the second one and fails with an error: libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error creating domain: VM name 'RH4U5' already in use by domain 2") Is this functionailty missing? Not implemented yet? Also the koan man page says: If you add the --interactive flag, you can watch the kickstart as it happens in an "xm console". But koan says it doesn't know what --interactive means: koan: error: no such option: --interactive -- Timothy W. Foreman ~ Security Administrator ~ tforeman@xxxxxxxxx (651) 365-4181 ~ Internet Broadcasting ~ www.ibsys.com -- The Onion: Have you decided what you want to be when you grow up? Berkeley Breathed: Dad. The rest is frosting.