Jared Hodge wrote: > > All, > > Forgive me if this has been addressed recently, I haven’t been > monitoring the mailing list very closely. A few months ago there was > quite a bit of discussion about support for windows XP (via ris-linux) > and other non-linux operating systems (via cloning). I believe the > decision was made to favor support of cloning over other options. Has > any progress been made on this front? I was going to suggest looking > at including “g4l” (ghost for linux - > http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/) as the cloning option. It seems > that this would be very easy to get working since it supports ftp > access to the images and already has a bootable linux image for the > cloning tool itself. I would think all that would be needed is an > option to load this bootable image though the current pxe/bootiso > options and possibly add some lipstick to have a clean method of > selecting the image to be used or created on the cobbler server. > > Anyway, maybe this discussion has moved to the development mailing > list, but I was just hoping for an update. Thanks. > > -Jared > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
RIS is a dead end because it does not support newness. We may investigate cloning in the future but right now have plenty of ideas going (see cobbler-devel list) so there is not much time to chase that presently. We do support virtualized installs via prepared ISOs, as well as snapshot cloning of virtual VMs (for KVM), which is our preferred route for now. "ghost 4 linux" seems like it's waiting for a trademark and other kinds of legal beatdown just coming from the name. Clonezilla may be in the running. TBD, though it is unlikely to happen for Cobbler 2.0, perhaps 2.2. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
