[Spacewalk-list] PXE booting a VMWare server

[Kennedy, Ryan]

Interesting... this is true but only for the hosts I have kickstarted since upgrading from Spacewalk 0.6 to 1.4.  I wondered why they were showing with the white icon instead of the usual gray/blue one.

Now I have a question... how do I get previously kickstarted/managed hosts (all VMware guest VMs mind you) to show up as virtual systems?  Not that it makes much of a difference but this could prove to be a point of confusion for some folks in my organization.

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Watts
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] PXE booting a VMWare server

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On 06/06/2011 20:24, Kennedy, Ryan wrote:
> No, you don’t want to use KVM guest (or anything else for that matter). 
> Just leave that dropdown set to “none” for VMware.  Let it treat it 
> like any other physical server.  I have dozens of VMs that I have PXE 
> kickstarted this way and it works just fine.  You will have to create 
> your VM in vcenter (ie. Spacewalk won’t create the VM guest for you), 
> but once you have it built and on the correct VLAN it should PXE boot 
> (assuming that’s all set up correctly) and install from your KS profile.

Note that VMware guests are detected as such by Spacewalk, so they do show up with the while outline icon of a virtual guest, I'm not sure Spacewalk treats them any differently apart from that though.

Mark.

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Mark Watts, BSc RHCE
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