[et-mgmt-tools] Re: "Could not communicate with" error

[Michael DeHaan]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:13:07PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>   
>
> I'm in need of system specific kickstart templating & xen. Is there
> any way to apply some workaround for this case?
>
> Or maybe I need to use the testing version of cobbler and koan? I'm
> currently using 0.4.8/0.4.0 respectively and server and client are
> both RHEL5.
>
>   
Two options:

(a)  the old way:  name your system objects after MAC addresses in the 
Xen reserved space ... counting up from 00:16:3E:00:00:00
and provision with "koan --virt --system=<MAC> --server=cobbler.example.com"

(a)  use cobbler/koan 0.5.0, where systems can be named anything ...