On Mar 27, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
Hmm, ok, thanks ... that makes sense, but the wiki page clearly
shows it being used as an option to "koan" ...
To force a specific choice, or to use a bridge that does not follow
the pethX/ethX convention, you can use --virt-bridge and specify
the name of any bridge you like. Note that this must be a /real/
bridge, and not a physical interface.
koan --server=bootserver.example.org --profile=RHEL5-i386 --virt --
virt-bridge=peth0
Yes, this was trimmed in a previous release. It's something we can
consider adding back if it's useful, though in general I want to
limit the amount of options we provide to koan to keep the focus
around centralized management and repeatable profiles.
No, that makes sense. For me, (and understand, I'm a total beginner
at the koan and virtualization stuff here), the biggest problem is
keeping the documentation up-to-date and in sync with the current
version of the tools. I'd love to contribute to the wiki, once I've
got a better understanding of all of this, but I think in general,
while the tools are of excellent quality, and the support provided on
this and other lists is superb, it would be good to have some more
fundamental documentation or "how-tos", targeted perhaps at people
familiar with RHEL and general Linux administration, but who aren't
that in touch with the deployment of virtual machines. This might be
my shortcoming though, and perhaps the Cobbler/Koan environment isn't
the proper place to host that type of doc.
I believe this was pulled at the same time we added multiple virtual
NIC support for cobbler (where you can specify dual homed virtual
machines, etc), since then it would be possible to create a profile
that required a specific number of NICs, and in that context, you
could override it with an incompatible configuration (such as one
NIC). However that's a shoot-foot scenario so I'm not sure the use
case justifies removing the option.
Thoughts?
Ah, well, I like options where I can get them, but only options that
help me, not those that I can shoot myself with. :-)
Thanks,
-s-
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