[et-mgmt-tools] Installation issue with cobbler

[Chris Sarginson]

Viswanath T K wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did try using a Fedora 7 distribution and cobbler did work. But it
> didnt work for the a kernel with Xen support.
> 
> cant we do that ?

I think what you will need to do is use the Fedora 7 distro to do the 
install, however in your kickstart file you should include kernel-xen so 
that the xen kernel is installed if you are going to be setting up xen 
vm's on the server

Chris

> 
> the output of cobbler profile report fc7xenwebservers is as below :
> profile         : fc7xenwebservers
> distro          : fc7xen
> kickstart       : /etc/cobbler/default.ks
> kernel options  : {}
> ks metadata     : {}
> virt file size  : 5
> virt ram        : 512
> virt type       : auto
> virt path       : 
> virt bridge     : xenbr0
> virt cpus       : 1
> repos           : []
> dhcp tag        : default
> server          : <<inherit>>
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Viswanath T K 
> 
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 10:35 -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>>
>>> 7. When I select fc7xenwebservers then I get the error, "Invalid or
>>> corrupt kernel image". Can anyone help me ?
>>>    If I select local nothing happens.
>>>   
>> You can't PXE boot a Xen kernel/initrd pair.
>>
>> Those are for installing paravirt Xen guests, not hosts.
>>
>> I would suspect if you did "cobbler profile report fc7xenwebservers" you 
>> would find
>> that the distro has the name "xen" in it somewhere.
>>
>> --Michael
>>
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