Foreman, Tim wrote:
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[mailto:et-mgmt-tools-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:59 AM
To: Fedora/Linux Management Tools
Subject: Re: [et-mgmt-tools] virt-name in cobbler profile?
Foreman, Tim wrote:
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?
This is probably a bug. koan keeps track of Xen names that
are already
taken by looking at files in /etc/xen, so let me know if you see a
/etc/xen/RH4U5 and /etc/xen/RH4U5_1 in there. I'm guessing koan is
confused because the first guest is still installing ...
It should be noted that the way koan looks for virtual
systems is a bit
outdated. The /etc/xen/ paths are deprecated and Xen
doesn't use them
anymore. Fortunately updating koan is on my short list...
Ah, the virt-name is my fault. My domain creations were failing, so
it wasn't creating the config file, but the domain was running in an
odd state.
Once I sorted that out it started working.
--Tim
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Glad to hear it worked out ... it's still a bit wrong in koan even so
and I'll see if I can't improve that.
Meanwhile, as for failed installs, this might be a good idea to do some
testing on cobbler's kickstart tracking feature (/var/log/cobbler and
"cobbler check"). I haven't heard many field reports on them, but that
feature is basically designed to figure out if any kickstarts have
stalled/hung/failed.
--Michael
