[Spacewalk-list] Hi,

[Mike McCune]

Anoop Bhat wrote:
> Is this true for VMWare ESX as well?
> 
> The hosts are CentOS 5.1 (or will be at least)
> 
> Thanks
> 

yup!  Xen only.

> On 7/1/08 9:56 PM, "Mike McCune" <mmccune at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Kuba Fast wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering whether I can manage virtual systems through spacewalk without setting the host up through spacewalk first.
>>
> 
> nope, in order to start/stop/reboot/configure your xen guests you have
> to have the host registered with Spacewalk.
> 
>> I registered a Fedora instance virtualized on top of Xen/Suse, and spacewalk didn't recognize it as virtual. I tried looking at the satellite documentation, but all I see is instructions to kickstart virtual hosts/guests.
> 
> the controls and views of the virtual guests are managed from the
> context of a host.  Once you grant the host the "Virtualization" system
> entitlement you get the "Virtualization" tab on the system details
> screen.  From there you can control/configure/provision your guests.
> 
> Mike
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