Christian Pazmiño | 2 Sep 19:53
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Build from Installation CD's

Hi,

I would like to know if I can use cobbler to build a Network Boot Server using only the installations cd's from RHEL 5, if It is possible how could I do it??

Thanks a lot.

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Christian Pazmiño | 2 Sep 19:54
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Build from Installation CD's

Hi,

I would like to know if I can use cobbler to build a Network

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Harry Hoffman | 2 Sep 20:16
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Re: Build from Installation CD's

I'll answer both of your emails here...

It's not possible to install/use cobbler *only* from the RHEL5 
installation CDs.

Cobbler (& Koan) are not part of the core distribution so they won't 
come on the CDs but they are available via yum (RHEL5's primary software 
update mechanism).

Download and install the EPEL repo:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse

Then install cobbler and koan

yum install cobbler koan

That's pretty much all there is to it.

Here's a wiki article that comes pretty close:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/cobbler/wiki/HowToCobblerServer

Cheers,
Harry

Christian Pazmiño wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know if I can use cobbler to build a Network Boot Server 
> using only the installations cd's from RHEL 5, if It is possible how 
> could I do it??
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> -- 
> Att.
> Christian Pazmiño
> 
> http://www.naitcorp.com/
> 
> 
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Joey Boggs | 3 Sep 05:25
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cobbler/virt-factory import errors

I built virt factory from the latest git source on Fedora 7 and have picked up  the latest few differences in importing but cant figure this one out.

Here are the distros I have setup that were scanned from a RHEL 5 install tree. I created a test profile using vf_gen_profile_stub. In my profile.xml file the distribution is set to RHEL-5-GA which matches on of my distros but it doesnt work when importing.

[root <at> dhcp239-193 rhel5tree]# cobbler distro list
  RHEL-5-GA
  RHEL-5-GA-i386
  RHEL-5-GA-i686-i386
  RHEL-5-GA-xen-i386


<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
      2 <appliance-container>
      3   <name>jbtest</name>
      4   <version>0.0.1</version>
      5   <distribution>RHEL-5-GA</distribution>
      6   <virt_storage_size>2</virt_storage_size>
      7   <virt_ram>512</virt_ram>
      8   <virt_type>512</virt_type>
      9   <kickstart_metadata></kickstart_metadata>
     10   <kernel_options></kernel_options>
     11   <valid_targets>is_either</valid_targets>
     12   <is_container>1</is_container>
     13   <puppet_classes></puppet_classes>
     14 </appliance-container>
                             


[root <at> dhcp239-193 rhel5tree]# vf_import jbtest
***** CONFIG RELOAD *****
populating...
scanning through: RHEL-5-GA
- looking for: RHEL-5-GA
- no such distribution: RHEL-5-GA-xen-i386
- no such distribution: RHEL-5-GA-i386
- no such distribution: RHEL-5-GA-x86_64
- no such distribution: RHEL-5-GA-xen-x86_64
- no compatible distributions have been imported for this profile: jbtest
[root <at> dhcp239-193 rhel5tree]#
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Farkas Levente | 3 Sep 17:06
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serial console is gray in virt-manager 0.5

hi,
when i start virt-manager-0.5 with kvm i can't see the console until the
kvm guest are start AND i exit and restart virt-manager. and i can't see
the guest are booting:-( it was worked with previous versions.

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Johan Huysmans | 4 Sep 16:45
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koan --virt: lvm support

Hi All,

In March this year Fred posted a request on this mailinglist:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2007-March/msg00119.html

What is the status of this request, is it working in the latest version of koan?

I noticed that it is now possible to use a logical volume as a disk,
but it is also possible to use logical volumes on dom0 as partitions
on domU?

Thanks for the information,
Johan Huysmans
Michael DeHaan | 4 Sep 17:01
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Re: cobbler/virt-factory import errors

Joey Boggs wrote:
> I built virt factory from the latest git source on Fedora 7 and have 
> picked up  the latest few differences in importing but cant figure 
> this one out.
>
> Here are the distros I have setup that were scanned from a RHEL 5 
> install tree. I created a test profile using vf_gen_profile_stub. In 
> my profile.xml file the distribution is set to RHEL-5-GA which matches 
> on of my distros but it doesnt work when importing.

virt-factory 0.0.3 was prototyped on FC-6, and 0.0.4 is going towards 
F-7.    Multi-distribution support probably won't be well tested until 
the next release, though
it's pretty good in 0.0.4.

My advice would be to attempt to build everything from source (0.0.4) as 
we are more likely to be able to address problems you find with that -- 
as well as to use
F-7 as your guinea-pig OS.
Michael DeHaan | 4 Sep 17:08
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Re: koan --virt: lvm support

Johan Huysmans wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In March this year Fred posted a request on this mailinglist:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2007-March/msg00119.html
>   

Implemented.

See the documentation for --virt-path in the koan manpage.

> What is the status of this request, is it working in the latest version of koan?
>
> I noticed that it is now possible to use a logical volume as a disk,
> but it is also possible to use logical volumes on dom0 as partitions
> on domU?
>   

There are three ways storage can be specified:

-- basic disk images on the filesystem (default behavior)
-- specifying a logical volume group that has free space in it, where 
then koan will carve a paritition out of it named after the virtual machine
This allows for using a common LVM group for all your virtual machines, 
which is rather useful.
-- specifying a specific partition for koan to use as storage.

I hope that answers the question!

Recently a few folks have been asking for ways to specify multiple 
"disks" for their configurations ... and that's something I am going to 
be looking at.

> Thanks for the information,
> Johan Huysmans
>
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Johan Huysmans | 4 Sep 18:40
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Re: koan --virt: lvm support

I noticed the koan parameter --virt-path and tried creating a vhost
with following command:
koan --server <some-ip> --virt --profile CentOS5-xen-i386 -P VolGroup00

The profile and kickstart files are generated by an import from the CentOs5 DVD.

This command creates 1 lv. The domU uses this as a disk (xvda) and
creates partitions on this.
It is working, but not really the thing i want.

I want that koan will create multiple lv's on the dom0. Each lv on
dom0 is a partition on domU. This means that the lv is directly
formatted in the dom0, and you can mount that logical volume like a
normal lv (it IS a normal volume) in the dom0.

Is this (allready) possible with koan (or virt-inst)?

Greetings,
Johan Huysmans

On 9/4/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@...> wrote:
> Johan Huysmans wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > In March this year Fred posted a request on this mailinglist:
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2007-March/msg00119.html
> >
>
> Implemented.
>
> See the documentation for --virt-path in the koan manpage.
>
>
> > What is the status of this request, is it working in the latest version of koan?
> >
> > I noticed that it is now possible to use a logical volume as a disk,
> > but it is also possible to use logical volumes on dom0 as partitions
> > on domU?
> >
>
> There are three ways storage can be specified:
>
> -- basic disk images on the filesystem (default behavior)
> -- specifying a logical volume group that has free space in it, where
> then koan will carve a paritition out of it named after the virtual machine
> This allows for using a common LVM group for all your virtual machines,
> which is rather useful.
> -- specifying a specific partition for koan to use as storage.
>
> I hope that answers the question!
>
> Recently a few folks have been asking for ways to specify multiple
> "disks" for their configurations ... and that's something I am going to
> be looking at.
>
> > Thanks for the information,
> > Johan Huysmans
> >
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Michael DeHaan | 4 Sep 19:14
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Re: koan --virt: lvm support

Johan Huysmans wrote:
> I noticed the koan parameter --virt-path and tried creating a vhost
> with following command:
> koan --server <some-ip> --virt --profile CentOS5-xen-i386 -P VolGroup00
>
> The profile and kickstart files are generated by an import from the CentOs5 DVD.
>
> This command creates 1 lv. The domU uses this as a disk (xvda) and
> creates partitions on this.
> It is working, but not really the thing i want.
>
> I want that koan will create multiple lv's on the dom0. Each lv on
> dom0 is a partition on domU. This means that the lv is directly
> formatted in the dom0, and you can mount that logical volume like a
> normal lv (it IS a normal volume) in the dom0.
>
> Is this (allready) possible with koan (or virt-inst)?
>   

I believe you are stuck with the extra level of indirection -- that is 
that partitions in your host (dom0) appear
as disks in your domU -- with both tools.   I don't think you can feed a 
partition up without a corresponding virtual disk :)

(Note that you don't have to use LVM for this -- regular partitions work 
too)

--Michael

> Greetings,
> Johan Huysmans
>
>
> On 9/4/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@...> wrote:
>   
>> Johan Huysmans wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> In March this year Fred posted a request on this mailinglist:
>>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2007-March/msg00119.html
>>>
>>>       
>> Implemented.
>>
>> See the documentation for --virt-path in the koan manpage.
>>
>>
>>     
>>> What is the status of this request, is it working in the latest version of koan?
>>>
>>> I noticed that it is now possible to use a logical volume as a disk,
>>> but it is also possible to use logical volumes on dom0 as partitions
>>> on domU?
>>>
>>>       
>> There are three ways storage can be specified:
>>
>> -- basic disk images on the filesystem (default behavior)
>> -- specifying a logical volume group that has free space in it, where
>> then koan will carve a paritition out of it named after the virtual machine
>> This allows for using a common LVM group for all your virtual machines,
>> which is rather useful.
>> -- specifying a specific partition for koan to use as storage.
>>
>> I hope that answers the question!
>>
>> Recently a few folks have been asking for ways to specify multiple
>> "disks" for their configurations ... and that's something I am going to
>> be looking at.
>>
>>     
>>> Thanks for the information,
>>> Johan Huysmans
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> et-mgmt-tools mailing list
>>> et-mgmt-tools@...
>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
>>>
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