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

[Michael DeHaan]

Bryan Kearney wrote:
> What do you think the possibility of of being able to have one 
> kickstart file feed vmware and xen images? It would be great to be 
> able to make the choice of vmwware/xen at koan time and not cobbler time.
>
> -- bk

Koan already takes a --virt-type for an override for the guest type, so 
that's the plan.

Right now, the same kickstarts are usable for metal, Xen pv/fv, and 
qemu/KVM so I wouldn't expect a change.

--Michael


>
>
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> 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
>>
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