<div>On 8/6/07, Michael DeHaan <<a href="mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mdehaan@redhat.com </a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Again, if you're writing a client of cobbler, usage of the XMLRPC API and using the *_for_koan functions is the best way to go. It's simpler -- and it's also usable remotely (and without the need for root access). </blockquote><div> The cobbler XMLRPC API is much better. What I have so far is not a cobbler client. It's a python program that sets it's defaults, then add/overirde settings from cobbler, cobbler's blended settings via XML-RPC make this even cooler, then add/override settings from command line arguments, then a little bit of code fine tunes the settings. then call the validation code to check the setting. Then we generat a .vmx file for the VM. scp the .vmx to the vmware server, ssh some commands to create the virtual disk and register the VM. then we run a cobbler system add on the local host gotta add the cobbler sync then we power on the VM. And off we go. Maybe not looks like I've got a problem with dnsmasq. Been working on the vmware side an have tried it since I switched to dnsmasq The VM is PXE booting with the right mac address With tcpdump inside the cobbler host I see a bunch of these 09:16:31.293655 rarp who-is 00:50:56:00:00:ff (oui Unknown) tell 00:50:56:00:00:ff (oui Unknown) 09:16:31.294312 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:50:56:00:00:ff (oui Unknown), length: 548 they got through the firewall, it was willing to be it was a firewall problem. and we are not aswering. Here's an excerpt from cobbler report system : ctl01 profile : ctl kernel options : {} ks metadata : {} ip address : <a href="http://10.0.0.66"> 10.0.0.66</a> mac address : 00:50:56:00:00:ff hostname : ctl01.sms pxe info set? : True config id : 01-00-50-56-00-00-ff netboot enabled? : 1 kickstart : <<inherit>> virt type : <<inherit>> virt path : <<inherit>> Ant the output from #cobbler sync sync distro: CentOS5-i386 sync profile: ctl sync profile: smstrac sync profile: CentOS5-i386 sync profile: o3d sync profile: gtm sync system: 00:50:56:00:00:01 sync system: ctl01 Shutting down Lightweight caching nameserver (dnsmasq): [ OK ] Starting Lightweight caching nameserver (dnsmasq): [ OK ] /tmp/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-00-50-56-00-00-ff has default linux prompt 0 timeout 1 label linux kernel /images/CentOS5-i386/vmlinuz append ksdevice=eth0 lang= text syslog= <a href="http://10.0.0.21:25150">10.0.0.21:25150</a> initrd=/images/CentOS5-i386/initrd.img ks=<a href="http://10.0.0.21/cblr/kickstarts_sys/ctl01/ks.cfg">http://10.0.0.21/cblr/kickstarts_sys/ctl01/ks.cfg</a> looks good let's cycle power on the VM still no dhcp offers. let's do a ps dnsmasq is still running let's look in the log files don't see anything at all about dnsmasq maybe I'm not looking in the right place. Not sure when I'll get back to this. Got a lot of stuff to do to get ready to go on vacation next week. </div></div> -- Drew Einhorn