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 >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> cobbler mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >>>> >>>> >>> 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, -- Tom Diehl [email protected] Spamtrap address [email protected] _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
