[Spacewalk-list] Re-provision guest systems

[Milan Zazrivec]

On Thursday 20 October 2011 20:25:31 Jonathan DeHaan wrote:
> Is there a particular reason that re-provisioning of guest systems is
> disabled?

Spacewalk does support reprovisioning of virtual guest: all except
Xen paravirtualized guests (it's not possible by definition). Everything
else (KVM, Xen FV, even VMWare) should work.

> I can install spacewalk-koan on my guest, run 'koan
> --server=ip.add.re.ss --replace-self
> --profile=Kickstart:1:SpacewalkDefaultOrganization', and it will
> reinstall, but it won't run the file preservation code, so I lose my SSH
> keys.

So the reprovisioning actually works and it's just the ssh key preservation
that is busted?

-MZ