Kickstarting to VM via ISO image

[Michael DeHaan]

Shabazian, Chip wrote:
> Have you looked at Revisor?  You should be able to spin your RHEL 5 
> install quickly and easily using Revisor:
> http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/
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> *Subject:* Kickstarting to VM via ISO image
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> Kickstart Gurus,
>
> I have a fully contained ISO image of the original RHEL5.1 32-bit 
> source tree, along with some additional RPMs & a custom ks.cfg file. 
>  The goal is to totally automate the build to a VMware VM via mapping 
> the ISO file to a virtual CDROM.  
>

Also of potential interest, if you have Cobbler and PXE infrastructure 
(or can set it up):

https://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2008-March/msg00004.html

If you want to just do ISOs, the easier approach (IMO) to the above is 
to take the rescue CD and just add the "ks=" line to it with a network 
kickstart -- in most applications that will work.   Of course that 
requires that the server location be accessible over the network -- 
which in itself is not too bad.