Matt Ford wrote:
> Ah, my fault! When scanning through the code pxegen.py I noticed that 
> you had a check to see if the distro had -xen in the name.  I realised 
> then that I'd inadvertently based my profile off of a paravirtualised 
> distro.  So my problems are solved! ;-)
>
> On that note I wonder if it sensible to have paravirtualised 
> distributions distinguished by having -xen in the name when all other 
> config has been abstracted into properties?  Why not a [para-virtualised]


Basically because I didn't want another command line option or WUI 
checkbox for a one-time hack (split Xen kernels) -- I believe recent 
Fedora has them unified, and the future is going to have more and more KVM.

--Michael


> 2009/5/6 Matt Ford <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
>
>
>     2009/5/6 Michael DeHaan <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
>         > These are inserted fine from a cobbler import.  I have
>         mirrored some
>
>         > repos and created my own profile called ngs-xen-server.
>          Note, I see
>         > no xen enabled repos at all in the menu above.
>
>         By design, you can't PXE boot those.  They are paravirt
>         kernels.  And
>         you mean "profiles" not "repos", here.   A bit of difference :)
>
>
>     Ah yes.  Of course - slaps self for such lazy language and missing
>     the obvious.
>      
>
>         However if you have a system named "default" that has special
>         semantics
>         and would keep any of the menu from being generated.
>
>
>     No systems at all present (I read I didn't need them for PXE only
>     installs)
>      
>     [r...@storage008 ~]# cobbler system list
>     [r...@storage008 ~]#
>
>         Profiles who have arches other than i386 or x86_64 also do not
>         show up
>         in the menu.   You may want to check to see what arch is
>         assigned to
>         your various distro objects.  If you upgraded
>         a rather old cobbler install, it may be that the arch fields
>         on your
>         distros are wrong?
>
>
>     Hmmm - anything more complicated to check than:
>
>     [r...@storage008 ~]# cobbler distro report | grep -a1 arch
>     distro               : CentOS-5.2-x86_64
>     architecture         : x86_64
>     breed                : redhat
>     --
>     distro               : CentOS-5.2-xen-x86_64
>     architecture         : x86_64
>     breed                : redhat
>     --
>     distro               : CentOS-5.3-x86_64
>     architecture         : x86_64
>     breed                : redhat
>     --
>     distro               : CentOS-5.3-xen-x86_64
>     architecture         : x86_64
>     breed                : redhat
>
>     Is it time to start scanning the code?  Is there a way of making
>     cobbler a lot more verbose?
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Matt.
>
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