Michael DeHaan wrote: > Leonid Flaks wrote: >> I am testing koan installation of the virtual guest. >> Host system is not a cobbler server, but on the same network. >> The name of the guest is 'devel'. Cobbler is running OK - I was able to >> PXE install a couple of systems. >> >> On host I ran: >> >> koan --server cobblerserver --virt --system=devel >> >> and after a couple minutes got this: >> >> - looking for Cobbler at http://cobblerserver/cobbler_api >> - reading URL: http://xx.xx.xx.xx/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/devel >> libvirtd (pid 2547) is running... >> - using qemu hypervisor, type=kvm >> Cannot find install source in kickstart file, aborting. >> >> If I ran 'koan --server cobblerserver --display --system=devel', >> the output is following: >> >> - looking for Cobbler at http://cobblerserver/cobbler_api >> - reading URL: http://xx.xx.xx.xx/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/devel >> name : devel >> distro : F-10-GOLD-x86_64 >> profile : F-10-64-virt-guest >> kickstart : http://xx.xx.xx.xx/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/devel >> ks_meta : >> tree=http://mirror.mycompany.com/fedora/releases/10/Fedora/x86_64/os/ >> kernel : /x8c/leonpc/srv/pxe-images/10/64/vmlinuz >> initrd : /x8c/leonpc/srv/pxe-images/10/64/initrd.img >> kernel_options : ksdevice=eth0 noipv6 lang= text >> ks=http://xx.xx.xx.xx/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/devel kssendmac >> repos : F10-x86_64-Everything-local >> F10-x86_64-updates-local >> virt_ram : 512 >> virt_type : qemu >> virt_path : /dev/vg-virt/LV2 >> >> xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP of cobbler server. >> >> I use the network installation with the same http url as for non virtual >> systems, that works fine. >> >> Am I missing something here? >> >> > Due to the way cobbler uses libvirt, we parse the kickstart from koan > before using it to find out where to find the install location, and then > we pass that along so that we can start the installation. This is where > it failed. If the kickstart template contains the "url --url=$tree" line > this /should/ work. (koan is looking for the "url" line to parse out and > apparently couldn't find it). Yes, the template for this profile has 'url --url $tree' line.
> > Can I see the results of "cobbler system getks --name=devel" ? > > Also please be sure you're trying a recent koan, i.e. 1.6.X something. It is the latest for fedora 10 (1.6.5) > > Here is the output "cobbler system getks --name=devel": #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T #version=DEVEL # Firewall configuration firewall --disabled # Root password rootpw --iscrypted XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX # Network information #network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --gateway=XX.XX.XX.24 --ip=XX.XX.XX.28 --nameserver=XX.XX.128.31 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --onboot=on # System authorization information auth --useshadow --passalgo=md5 --enablenis --nisdomain=mynisdomain # Use graphical install text # System keyboard keyboard us # System language lang en_US # SELinux configuration selinux --disabled # Do not configure the X Window System skipx # Install OS instead of upgrade install # Use network installation url --url http://mirror.mycompany.com/fedora/releases/10/Fedora/x86_64/os/ repo --name=F10-x86_64-Everything-local --baseurl=http://mirror.mycompany.com/fedora/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/ repo --name=F10-x86_64-updates-local --baseurl=http://mirror.mycompany.com/fedora/updates/10/x86_64/ # Reboot after installation reboot # System timezone timezone America/New_York # System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr # Partition clearing information clearpart --all # Disk partitioniong information %include /tmp/ksfoo/partitioning/v-guest.part %pre set -x -v exec 1>/tmp/ks-pre.log 2>&1 # Once root's homedir is there, copy over the log. while : ; do sleep 10 if [ -d /mnt/sysimage/root ]; then cp /tmp/ks-pre.log /mnt/sysimage/root/ logger "Copied %pre section log to system" break fi done & wget "http://XX.XX.XX.XX/cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/pre/system/devel"; -O /dev/null wget -O /tmp/anamon "http://XX.XX.XX.XX/cobbler/aux/anamon"; python /tmp/anamon --name "devel" --server "XX.XX.XX.XX" --port "80" touch /tmp/ks-pre.log && exec >> /tmp/ks-pre.log 2>&1 export TMPMNTPNT="/tmp/ksfoo"; mkdir -p $TMPMNTPNT && \ mount -t nfs -o ro,udp,nolock nfsserver.mycompany.com:/NFS4exports/leonpc/ks $TMPMNTPNT %end %post #!/bin/sh #-- base post section -------------------------------------------- set -x -v exec 1>/root/ks-post.log 2>&1 wget "http://XX.XX.XX.XX/cblr/svc/op/yum/system/devel"; --output-document=/etc/yum.repos.d/cobbler-config.repo # Start download cobbler managed config files (if applicable) # End download cobbler managed config files (if applicable) # Start koan environment setup echo "export COBBLER_SERVER=XX.XX.XX.XX" > /etc/profile.d/cobbler.sh echo "setenv COBBLER_SERVER XX.XX.XX.XX" > /etc/profile.d/cobbler.csh # End koan environment setup # Begin cobbler registration # skipping for system-based installation # End cobbler registration wget -O /usr/local/sbin/anamon "http://XX.XX.XX.XX/cobbler/aux/anamon"; wget -O /etc/rc.d/init.d/anamon "http://XX.XX.XX.XX/cobbler/aux/anamon.init"; chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/anamon /usr/local/sbin/anamon test -d /selinux && restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/anamon /usr/local/sbin/anamon chkconfig --add anamon cat << __EOT__ > /etc/sysconfig/anamon COBBLER_SERVER="XX.XX.XX.XX" COBBLER_PORT="80" COBBLER_NAME="devel" LOGFILES="/var/log/boot.log /var/log/messages /var/log/dmesg" __EOT__ umask 077 touch /tmp/ks-post.log && exec >> /tmp/ks-post.log 2>&1 echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------" echo "POST START `date`" export TMPMNTPNT="/tmp/chrootksfoo"; export LOCALVERS="10"; export ARCH="64"; # need to mount again because %post runs in the chrooted environ!!! # and need to startup rpcbind and nfslock for the mount to work mkdir -p $TMPMNTPNT && \ /etc/init.d/rpcbind start && /etc/init.d/nfslock start && \ mount -t nfs -o ro nfsserver.mycompany.com:/NFS4exports/leonpc/ks $TMPMNTPNT cd $TMPMNTPNT/scripts-post ./base-post.devel.f$LOCALVERS-$ARCH.sh & wait wget "http://XX.XX.XX.XX/cblr/svc/op/nopxe/system/devel"; -O /dev/null wget "http://XX.XX.XX.XX/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/devel"; -O /root/cobbler.ks wget "http://XX.XX.XX.XX/cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/post/system/devel"; -O /dev/null %end %packages --ignoremissing @base @fonts @graphical-internet @gnome-desktop @printing @system-tools @admin-tools @server-cfg @text-internet @virtualization autofs ypbind koan screen yum-fastestmirror tcsh -yum-fedorakmod -ntp -firstboot -system-config-date -system-config-keyboard %end Had to do some editing to remove encrypted password, IP etc. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
