[Spacewalk-list] Forcing Hypervisor Capabilities on a virtual machine

[Mattias Giese]

Hi Paul,

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:17:08 -0500
Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Mattias Giese <giese at b1-systems.de>
> wrote:

> > Well, i have tried that. I created a special activation key for my
> > test-hypervisor with the neccessary entitlements and i have
> > rhn-virtualization-host installed and running. Registration itself
> > was fine, but even after successful registration i am not even able
> > to enable the Virtualization entitlements for the hypervisor.
> Well maybe I wasn't clear enough I didn't think that  would work but
> once you have rhn-virtualization-host installed you can manually
> create the VM inside the VM using the command line tools and use the
> ISO image for the initial boot of the nested VM, but I wouldn't expect
> it to be initially provisionable via the spacewalk GUI. keep in mind
> nested VM's are a relatively new concept and not that many people
> outside of VMWare ESXi users are using them so I doubt any one thought
> of it (It may not have even been possible at the time) when that
> portion of spacewalk was written.
> I think if you need this feature you will need to create an RFE
> (Request For Enhancement) for it in the spacewalks Bugzilla site.

Thanks for the explanation, i will just go ahead and propose this as a
feature.

Regards,

Mattias

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