@Michael, thanks! This might be exactly what I am looking for in this stage, but I cannot find an example of how to insert the arguments at boot to point to the remote kickstart.
Mihai Satmarean miercuri, 7 ianuarie 2015, 18:10:38 UTC+1, Michael DeHaan a scris: > > If you don't want to bake in the ks.cfg (for instance, if you have > different install profiles coming off the same OS), supplying the kernel > argument ks=http://server.example.com/foo.ks also works. > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Earl Robinson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> 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] >> <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <javascript:>. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/da56aeef-01f0-41f6-8dc9-3cd1bdd138d5%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/da56aeef-01f0-41f6-8dc9-3cd1bdd138d5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CABGf5APRF_HeN%3Dgyvh0UGdBP%2BV8AeLsaXZZR1SYX833C17wrkQ%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CABGf5APRF_HeN%3Dgyvh0UGdBP%2BV8AeLsaXZZR1SYX833C17wrkQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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/edd2288f-43ec-4506-bc4c-82131c16be0c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
