[Thincrust-devel] Using cobbler to provision images

[David Huff]

Bryan Kearney wrote:
> I put some code into the latest version of cobbler which allows for 
> provisioning images which are based on the thincrust tools. Here is a 
> quick script which shows how you can use the latest dev cobbler and koan 
> as a simple provisioning engine.
> 
> See if this is more what you were looking for. It provides step by step
> instructions to build a Sugar desktop appliance and deploy it via a
> local cobbler server.
> 
> -- bk
> 
> 
> # This assumes you have the latest cobbler devel branch installed, and
> # the latest koan devel branch.
> 
> # The use case will be to build a Sugar desktop appliance and deploy it
> # locally using koan. We will then access it via virt-manager
> # The main difference with distributed deployment would be
> # moving hte image file to network storage
> 
> # Ensure that we have the libraries we need
> yum install appliance-tools libvirt python-virtinst virt-manager
> virt-viewer wget
> 
> # Create a work directory
> su -
> mkdir cobbler_test
> cd cobbler_test
> 
> # Get a kickstart file for the sugar desktop
> wget -O sugar-f10.ks
> "http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=acex.git;a=blob_plain;f=sugarxo/resources/sugar-f10.ks" 
> 
> 
> # Build an appliance image using appliance-creator
> appliance-creator --name=sugarDesktop --config sugar-f10.ks --cache /tmp
> 
> # You now have a sugarDesktop-sda.raw file (disk image) and a
> sugarDesktop.xml file metadata
> # Inspect the metadata
> cat sugarDesktop.xml
> 
> # Push the appropriate values to cobbler. For this example, we will use
> the default network connection
> # the virt-bridge is blanked out
> cobbler image add --name sugarDesktop --virt-cpus 1 --virt-ram 512 \
>         --file /root/cobbler_test/sugarDesktop-sda.raw \
>         --network-count 1 --image-type virt-clone  \
>         --virt-bridge " " --virt-type auto
> 

Just out of curiosity is this where you are using the imageParser object?

-D