On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Michael DeHaan wrote:

> On 09/22/2009 03:23 PM, Tom Diehl wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>   Awesome, thanks.  I had completely forgotten about that system 
>>>> definition
>>>> as I haven't played with the imaging stuff for a few months.  Removing 
>>>> the
>>>> system definition did allow cobblerd to start.
>>>> 
>>>> -- jeremy
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>>> This raises a (purely theoretical question) ... how many people are using
>>> Cobbler+koan today to manage a library of virt images?
>>> 
>>> I suspect it is rather small relative to the kickstart use cases.
>>> 
>>> I can't remove the feature (nor do I want to), but I would be interested 
>>> in
>>> knowing how widely it is deployed.
>>> 
>>> (For those not aware, the idea here was to be able to put a library of 
>>> (say,
>>> Windows) virt images out on NFS and make it easy to start them up with 
>>> koan,
>>> including keeping the virt parameters for them (and so forth) in Cobbler.)
>>> 
>> 
>> I would love to use this feature but as I understand the current state of 
>> things,
>> koan only supports installing windoze virtual machines on kvm. Currently
>> we are using xen.
>> 
>> Am I wrong about this?
>>
>> 
>
> You are correct about this. IIRC, the Xen fullvirt install mechanism in 
> libvirt worked a bit differently, thus
> it is only supported in KVM. If someone wants to try to get Xen fullvirt 
> working similarly, that would be interesting.

Unfortunately, I do not have the skills. :-( However, if someone does decide
to work on this I can do testing.

Regards,

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