[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler/koan can now do Xen fullvirt installs

[Tom Brown]

>  
>
> For those of you wishing to do fully-automated fully-virtualized Xen 
> installations (as opposed to Xen paravirt, qemu, or KVM which it did 
> already), that is now doable from koan.
> It requires the virt install libraries that are in Fedora 8.
>
> The process is pretty simple.    You first need to be running Cobbler 
> from git (development branch) and koan from git also (there is no
> development branch yet for koan).
>
> From the bootserver, tell cobbler to set up a virtual system.    This 
> assumes that cobbler is also managing your PXE configuration, as this 
> installation
> will happen via PXE.
>
> # cobbler system add --name=virttest --mac=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF 
> --profile=rhel4-i386 --virt-type=xenfv [...]
> # cobbler sync  (to restart DHCP)
>
> Now, request the new virtual installation from koan. 
> # koan --server=bootserver.example.org --virt --system=virttest
>
> The installation will take place over a hybrid of PXE and Cobbler 
> XMLRPC, resulting in a fully virtualized Xen install, fully automated
> all the way through.   That's it!
>
> I'll add some docs on this to the Wiki ( 
> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/cobbler/ ).

Hi

I am wondering if this functionality is in the 0.8x of cobbler/koan or 
if this is still needed to be checked out the development branch?

Also is this likely to work on a RHEL5.1 cobbler server or will i have 
to go fedora for that ?

thanks