[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler Server OS recommendations

[Michael DeHaan]

Tom Brown wrote:
>
>> Yes, fullvirt installs for koan need PXE capability, so your guests 
>> (the pieces that run koan) would need to be F8 for Fedora ... not 
>> entirely
>> sure what RHEL contains/will-contains this.   I may do something to 
>> make tracking/transferance of the rescue CD image easier to allow 
>> this usage on older distros, but right now you need a version of the 
>> tools that supports kicking of Xen installs over PXE for FV (unless 
>> it's KVM, where that's not required).
>>
>> We don't care about the Cobbler OS in that case, just the koan OS.
>>
>
> ok so you are saying the dom0 needs to be F8 to have full virt domU's ?
>
> i need to be able to install RHEL4 u5 domU's and so far these can only 
> be para virt's if my dom0's are RHEL5 u1 and i need them to be full virt.
>
Why do you need them to be fullvirt?

The only reason that's come up before has been a rather odd 
direct-hardware-access corner case.

--Michael