[Spacewalk-list] API Call system.provisionVirtualGuest - Spacewalk 1.6

[Peter Purvis]

Thanks for the response Tomas.

Realised it was talking about the virtual host rather than the guest, added
the spacewalk-koan and koan packages to the appropriate repository and it
works.

My next issue is the command is working, a package installation is
completed but for the installation itself rhn_check shows the following and
my mailbox is getting spammed heavily!

    Could not retrieve action item from server <RetryServer for
{spacewalk.fqdn}/XMLRPC>
    Error code: 1While running 'queue.get': caught
    exceptions.TypeError : cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled

Any ideas? Can provide the full dump if necessary.



>
>
> If I remember well, this message is displayed, when spacewalk-koan isn't
> found. It needs to be in one of the channels the system is currently
> subscribed to or in any child channel (of the current base ch.) the server
> can
> be subscribed to - in that case the server would be subscribed to such a
> child
> channel automatically.
>
> Last time I just created a child channel with spacewalk-koan packages and
> it
> worked for me.
>
>
> No, the API creates cobbler system record for you.
>
> The other option would be to try it over WebUI.
>
> Regards,
> Tomas
>


On 27 January 2012 10:18, Tomas Lestach <tlestach at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 26 of January 2012 23:21:43 Peter Purvis wrote:
> > I'm attempting to create a new virtual system using the following xmlrpc
> > command in ruby:
> >
> >     spacewalk.call("system.provisionVirtualGuest",token, {kvm-host-id}, "
> > test.example.com" ,"CentOS-5-5-x86_64-kvm")
> >
> > I get the following error:
> >
> >      Could not find the needed Spacewalk provisioning packages given this
> > system's current base channel and desired target channel: {0}
>
>
> If I remember well, this message is displayed, when spacewalk-koan isn't
> found. It needs to be in one of the channels the system is currently
> subscribed to or in any child channel (of the current base ch.) the server
> can
> be subscribed to - in that case the server would be subscribed to such a
> child
> channel automatically.
>
> Last time I just created a child channel with spacewalk-koan packages and
> it
> worked for me.
>
> >
> > The base channel and the target channel have both koan and spacewalk-koan
> > in the repo now that I have rhnpush'ed them in.
> >
> > a. Do I need this system to be in the cobbler database or in spacewalk
> > before it can be provisioned?
>
> No, the API creates cobbler system record for you.
>
> The other option would be to try it over WebUI.
>
> Regards,
> Tomas
> --
> Tomas Lestach
> RHN Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
> > If so, how can I do that for a brand new
> > system, all I can find is system.createSystemRecord which requires the
> > systemID of an existing spacewalk system, not something I have in this
> > instance.
> > b. Is there something I'm missing here? Can I not just throw a new system
> > at spacewalk with a guestname only? If so, what is the process to add a
> > system to spacewalk and have it provisioned on a virtual host.
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
>
>
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