[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and Cobbler - Ignoring architecture

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:24:24PM +1300, Ryan Davies wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have Spacewalk sitting on a CentOS 6 server, I have a CentOS Channel set
> up with x86_64 architecture selected.
> 
> However, when the Distribution is created from that, It's put into cobbler
> as i386. When koan kicks up to turn that into a virtual machine, it creates
> a i386 based KVM VM, and therefore the system cant kickstart because it's a
> 64Bit OS.
> 
> If I go in via ssh and update the distribution using cobbler edit, and
> change the arch to x86_64, the systems kickstart as expected.
> 
> Is this a known issue? Or am I selecting the wrong architecture in the
> Channel ?

If you provision the virtual machine from WebUI, does the problem
happen as well? Or just when you use koan directly?

I've filed bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928678
for this issue so we'd appreciate more details either here or in that
bug.

Thank you,

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat