Hi, I'm using cobbler on an ESX 3.01 Server. Koan does not at this time support creating VMs with the desired config on this platform. I have not yet dug into: <a href="http://searchsystemschannel.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid99_gci1243494,00.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://searchsystemschannel.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid99_gci1243494,00.html</a> and attempted to write a script that creates a VM configured the way I need it. A friend took a brief look at it, and thought this was for an older vintage of ESX, so there may be problems getting things to work on 3.01. In the meantime, I am creating VMs by hand using VMware's Virtual Infrastructure Client, powering them up, and PXE boot takes me to the Menu where I choose a profile and an appropriate VM gets built. The problem with this approach is that so far is dealing with MAC address. If VMware allocates the MAC address, I won't know what it is till after the VM is created. Then I have to dig around on the ESX server to find out what MAC was assigned and manually issue a cobbler system command, or I can manually assign a MAC address and force VMware to use it, then manually issue the system command. But that's even more tedious. In the recent Kickstart Tips and Tricks document I found a way to get kickstart to statically assign the ip address it got from pxe via dhcp using %pre. I've got most of the embellisment to this tip necessary to issue a cobbler system command to pin the ip to the mac address. I need a way to easily find the name of the currently running profile to use in the --profile option. Fortunately I can get away with hardcoding the profile name in the kickstart, but sooner or later I will add another profile that uses the same kickstart and this work around will break down. Thanks, -- Drew Einhorn