[et-mgmt-tools] Working on VMware support for cobbler/koan..

[Michael DeHaan]

I'm working on adding VMware support for koan.   Obviously it's not Free 
as in Speech, but it's widely deployed, and I think that
would be a nice addition to the idea for further abstracting out 
provisioning infrastructure.  

Most likely this will work by allowing cobbler to keep track of CD ISO's 
in the "distro" objects.

So we'll be able to do things like:
    cobbler distro edit --name=RHEL5 --rescuecd=/path/*.iso
    cobbler profile edit --name=RHEL5-examplefoo --virt-type=vmware
    # on the remote system
    koan --server=cobbler.example.com --virt --profile=examplefoo

Once we do this (and are able to represent ISO file tracking), we can 
also support Xen Fullvirt without the need
for PXE infrastructure (which means potentially being able to install 
non-Linux distros also as well as support
appliance-like stuff, though we may need a few more options there as 
that rolls on).

Comments/ideas welcome...

In other news, vmware server is really annoying to setup compared to 
Xen/KVM :)

--Michael