Parimal,
To use kickstart you first need to present a boot media which is configured
to pull the kickstart file
See:
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-howuse.html
You can use ansible to present the VM with such bootable media by launching
it in a VLAN with a PXE boot server which will present the media, or by
presenting the VM with a CD image with the kickstart file built in.
I've gone the CD image route with ansible, you can specify a cd image to
boot like this:
vsphere_guest:
vm_hardware:
vm_cdrom:
type: "iso"
iso_path: "DatastoreName/cd-image.iso"
Of course you need to give the vsphere_guest module all other required
arguments, but this is the simplest way I've found to kiskstart a vm using
ansible.
-earl
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Patel Parimal <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I am newbie to Ansible.
>
> I have gone through the online documentation and examples for creating new
> VM on Ansible Docs - vsphere_guest (
> http://docs.ansible.com/vsphere_guest_module.html).
>
> I want to automate VM creation and OS installation process using Ansible.
>
> Currently I have VMWare ESXi available which doesn't support VM cloning,
> so I need to create a new VM every time from scratch and install OS(RHEL 6)
> into it.
>
> Is there any way to provide kickstart file URL in Ansible Playbook (for
> example, static HTTP URL like http://192.168.0.1/ks/ks.cfg) so after
> newly built VM is powered on, OS will be installed into it ?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Parimal
>
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