For
GSX server (the freely available one) the process is pretty much the
same.
1
create the vmx file (well documented format)
2
create the disk image (using vmdiskmanager on GSX)
3
register the VM using "vmware-cmd -s register <path to vmx
file>"
Cheers
Dan
-----Original Message-----I just asked over on a VMware list.
From: et-mgmt-tools-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:et-mgmt-tools-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of drew einhorn
Sent: 03 July 2007 4:27 PM
To: Fedora/Linux Management Tools
Subject: Re: VMware?
And got the following link. It's an example command for creating
VMware ESX VMs. The book it comes from looks very interesting.
http://searchsystemschannel.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid99_gci1243494,00.html
On 7/3/07, Michael DeHaan < mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:drew einhorn wrote:
> Things are working well on the ESX box now that I'm past the cobbler
> and kickstart misconfigurations.
>
> Every time I create an new vm I need to take a trip though VMware's
> Virtual Infrastructure Client, that I'd really like to avoid. VMware
> has a few more options to besides ram and disk space to configure
> before creating a VM. Haven't taken a close enough look to know
> either how difficult it will be to live without being able to set them
> when the VM is created, or how difficult it would be to extend cobbler
> to handle more VM attributes, or how this maps into all the other
> virtualization toolsets.
>
Can you see if VMware has any docs for command line creation of guests?
If so, those attributes could be added in koan fairly easily. I don't
have a test platform,
but would be more than happy to code something up in koan if someone
wanted to test the proof
of concept. Tracking a few additional attributes in cobbler wouldn't
be a problem.
> On 7/2/07, *Michael DeHaan* < mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> drew einhorn wrote:
> > Cobbler / Koan supports Xen virtualization.
> >
> > Has anyone looked at what it would take to get koan working
> > on other virtualization platforms? I have a VMware ESX box
> > I'd like to be able to use it on.
> >
>
> Not to my knowledge -- though I like the idea.
>
> As far as I'm aware, vmware does understand PXE installation, so koan
> would just need a way to create an "empty" guest
> that would PXE itself. I know this is the plan for how we're
> going to
> support fully automatic installs for other
> virtualization types like KVM, Xen hardware virt, etc.
>
> If there are any VMware experts on the list, patches would be great :)
>
> It seems like the syntax needed would not need to even access the
> cobbler server the way --virt does today, ex:
>
> koan --virt --virt-type=vmware --mac=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF --virt-name=foo
> [...other options...]
>
> --virt-type could default to "xenparavirt" and current behavior.
>
> --Michael
>
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