[et-mgmt-tools] Teaching cobbler about images & power

[Chris MacLeod]

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On Jun 13, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote:

> These are two things I want to look at doing soon.
>
> (A)
> The image use case:
>
> We're already using Cobbler to help manage DHCP, DNS, PXE trees, and  
> abstract out all of the glue that holds the OS's together.  One  
> thing that it doesn't do though, is have a good way to deploy images  
> to physical machines (cloning).    Kickstart is pretty flexible, I  
> like it better, but I know that doesn't solve all the problems of  
> deploying "that other OS" and so forth.  Images are also important  
> for the appliance space, and we'll also be able to eventually use  
> the same kind of image database for virt images depending on how we  
> play our cards.
>

This would also be extremely useful for things like hardware vendor  
firmware images, BIOS updates, etc.

C
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