Hi Mark, Thanks for posting that code, I've been unsure of how to extra the mac address for newly created VM's. I can now parse that to cobbler to create/update vm's.
Is anyone else using a similar workflow? I'm only using cobbler because we presently use it allows us to use our existing kickstart files. Thanks! On 7 January 2015 at 09:49, Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently done just this - and I coupled the VM creation with PXE > booting. I have two PXE menus in place, the default one just says 'boot to > HD'. The other one is the install menu, with a kickstart line. I control > the use of this with Ansible by doing the following: > > https://gist.github.com/phips/2777a564e10d53824df8 > > > On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 10:07:53 UTC+1, Patel Parimal 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 >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/4af2ebed-cecb-4ba1-964a-bd76c0e128ed%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/4af2ebed-cecb-4ba1-964a-bd76c0e128ed%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BemtqvrF1DeL1aLYSHPfRbj-Pj2WfYTZ2BYm6vrO8_tHzgxrw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
