Re: kickstart configuration file testers?

[Ulisses Furquim <ulissesf gmail com>]

On 11/24/05, Ulisses Furquim <ulissesf gmail com> wrote:
> On 11/24/05, Klaus Steden <klaus steden thomson net> wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a good way (or better yet, a tool!) to test kickstart
> > > configuration files without having to reboot and rebuild a machine?  It's
> > > extraordinarily time consuming to reboot a machine with a kickstart
> > > configuration file that may not work.
> > >
> > I don't know about a consistency-checker if such a thing exists (wouldn't mind
> > having it, if it did) but I use VMware to check my kickstarts.
>
> Using VMware can cut some testing time, but I think that writing a
> kickstart-validator is going to be easier now that we have pykickstart
> (rawhide), right?

Actually, pykickstart already has a ksvalidator, but I don't know if
the format has changed. Does anyone know?

-- Ulisses