[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler/koan virt install

[Michael DeHaan]

Tom Brown wrote:
>>
>> yes thanks - i have been using this fine for a few months now with 
>> 'real' systems so it was assigning IP's to a virt system that was 
>> slightly puzzling me. So i take it that i can add a system and just 
>> omit the reference to the mac address and then reference that system 
>> to koan to get the virt machine installed.
>>
>
> but thinking out loud here i think i am missing a step as i'd need to 
> assign a mac as otherwise dhcp will not know to give out the assigned 
> IP to the virt box.
>
> Again i am only talking about virt machines here, i can build and 
> rebuild real machines without any issue.
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cobbler system add --name=foosball --mac=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF 
[--ip=192.168.1.42] [etc] [etc]
koan --virt --system=foosball --server=cobbler.example.org

That'll do it.    Koan will create the VM guest named "foosball" with 
the MAC as set in cobbler.

--Michael