[et-mgmt-tools] More Cobbler, Koan and Xen questions

[Michael DeHaan]

Foreman, Tim wrote:
> I'm still trying to kickstart a Xen guest using Cobbler and Koan
> and I'm making progress, but it's still not working right.
>
> I have a distro, I have a profile and I have a system. The problem
> is that it appears to be ignoring my kickstart file and goes into
> an interactive install. I see in the webserver logs on the Cobbler
> box that it's requesting, and getting, the kickstart file, but it
> appears to not be using it.
>   
The really best way to get what you want is to do a manual install using 
either virtguest-install or virt-manager,
and then look at the /root/anaconda.ks and use that as a basis, just 
like you would for any other system. 

When kickstarts go interactive, it's because they miss an option they 
need.  A kickstart file is basically an answer file
for most of the install process. 
> My question is this: The cobbler man page states that I should use
> the MAC address for the system name when kickstarting a virtual
> server, but the MAC address is randomly generated when I run Koan
> to do a virtual install.
>   
Well, you don't technically have to, and I should probably clear that up 
in the manpage.    The reason you would want to use the MAC address is 
so that you could do per-system templating, control the MAC address 
rather than getting a random one, and the like.   

This is how you tell koan to provision virt based on a system definition:

koan --virt --system=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF --server=foo.example.com

This assumes you've done a "cobbler system add --name=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF 
--profile=virtualfoo" before.

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