[Thincrust-devel] Using cobbler to provision images

[Bryan Kearney]

David Huff wrote:
> 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?

Yes.. look at the devel branch of koan:

http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/koan?p=koan;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/devel

look at koan/imgcreate.py

-- bk