Bryan Kearney wrote:
What do you think the possibility of of being able to have one
kickstart file feed vmware and xen images? It would be great to be
able to make the choice of vmwware/xen at koan time and not cobbler time.
-- bk
Koan already takes a --virt-type for an override for the guest type, so
that's the plan.
Right now, the same kickstarts are usable for metal, Xen pv/fv, and
qemu/KVM so I wouldn't expect a change.
--Michael
Michael DeHaan wrote:
I'm working on adding VMware support for koan. Obviously it's not
Free as in Speech, but it's widely deployed, and I think that
would be a nice addition to the idea for further abstracting out
provisioning infrastructure. Most likely this will work by allowing
cobbler to keep track of CD ISO's in the "distro" objects.
So we'll be able to do things like:
cobbler distro edit --name=RHEL5 --rescuecd=/path/*.iso
cobbler profile edit --name=RHEL5-examplefoo --virt-type=vmware
# on the remote system
koan --server=cobbler.example.com --virt --profile=examplefoo
Once we do this (and are able to represent ISO file tracking), we can
also support Xen Fullvirt without the need
for PXE infrastructure (which means potentially being able to install
non-Linux distros also as well as support
appliance-like stuff, though we may need a few more options there as
that rolls on).
Comments/ideas welcome...
In other news, vmware server is really annoying to setup compared to
Xen/KVM :)
--Michael
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