[et-mgmt-tools] [ANNOUNCE] Cobbler 0.6.5, Koan 0.6.4

[Michael DeHaan]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 03:59:03PM -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>   
>> New releases...
>>
>> Nothing major.  This is mainly just to update the apps with a few needed 
>> features while development on Cobbler 0.7.X continues. 
>>
>> Cobbler 0.6.5 changes:
>> - Fix for f8 comps.xml name change
>> - Fix for repo file permissions during cobbler reposync
>>
>> Koan 0.6.4 has a few more features:
>> - Added --nogfx option when creating virtual guests to disable VNC and 
>> just use the console
>> - Allow Xen machines to be constructed with no disks (size=0), but not 
>> qemu/KVM
>> - Support Xen Fullvirt via PXE (requires Cobbler 0.7.X)
>>     
>
> FYI, F9 Xen will (almost certainly) contain support for booting Xen
> fullvirt guests with a direct kernel + initrd.  I've got the patches
> in rawhide - Xen config syntax is the same as for paravirt guests. 

Great! PXE is still undoable for a large portion of the install base 
(because of static
IPs or other IT reasons), so that will be great thing to have.

> Need
> to get them accepted by upstream Xen, but once that's done I'll enable
> support in libvirt. So we'll have parity in terms of local boot 
> functionality between Xen PV, Xen HVM and KVM.  Just PXE for Xen paravirt
> to figure out now...
>   

Yep, sounds good, let me know when I can add them to koan and I'll get 
it in there!

> Dan.
>