<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In that case… you probably just need to fix your DHCP server and tell it to pass out valid DNS servers. :-) Not sure why that would differ between VMs and physicals though, unless they are hitting a different pool or something.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yeah, the VMware determination is something fairly new to Spacewalk. Well… at least newer than version 0.6. :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Glad you got it working.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Rakow<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] PXE booting a VMWare server<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>So, some deeper Googling came up with the solution, as it looks like someone had the same problem before. I had to change a line in the /etc/cobbler/settings file from the c-name to the IP address. <o:p></o:p></p><div style='margin-left:30.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>server: <i>host_name</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>to<o:p></o:p></p><div style='margin-left:30.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>server: <i>ip.address.of.host</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>With out this it would load the stage 2, format the file systems, then get lost. The boot sector was already written to, so to get it to PXE again, it had to be "rescued" and a dd done to the 1st 512 (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1).<br><br>Also Mark and Ryan, my systems show up as VMWare virtual guests in Spacewalk, not physical servers.<br><br>Scott<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Scott Rakow <<a href="mailto:srr.list@gmail.com">srr.list@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Still been playing around with this and I still can't get it to work correctly. I get through the stage 2, then get the error message:<o:p></o:p></p><div style='margin-left:30.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: anaconda-base-201004270002.x86_64. Please verify its path and try again.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>I have been able to use this to build physical servers, so what would the difference be? <br><span style='color:#888888'><br>Scott</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Mark Watts <<a href="mailto:m.watts@linux-corner.info" target="_blank">m.watts@linux-corner.info</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:13:59 -0700, "Kennedy, Ryan" <<a href="mailto:rkennedy@paml.com" target="_blank">rkennedy@paml.com</a>><br>wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> Interesting... this is true but only for the hosts I have kickstarted<br>> since upgrading from Spacewalk 0.6 to 1.4. I wondered why they were<br>> showing with the white icon instead of the usual gray/blue one.<br>><br>> Now I have a question... how do I get previously kickstarted/managed<br>hosts<br>> (all VMware guest VMs mind you) to show up as virtual systems? Not that<br>it<br>> makes much of a difference but this could prove to be a point of<br>confusion<br>> for some folks in my organization.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I've started at Spacewalk 1.3 so I'm not sure when this feature came in.<br><br>I'd suspect that running a "rhn-profile-sync" would update such things.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Mark.<br><br>--<br>Mark Watts BSc RHCE<br><a href="http://www.linux-corner.info/" target="_blank">http://www.linux-corner.info/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Spacewalk-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><pre>PAML EMAIL DISCLAIMER: Information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. 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