> I wish to provision several virtual clients on a single virtual server. > > Tried the following: > > cobbler system add --name=test1 --profile=centos-5.3-xen-x86_64 > --virt-type=xenpv --ip=192.168.62.75 --static=yes > --subnet=255.255.254.0 --gateway=192.168.62.40 --virt-cpus=2 > --virt-ram=4096 > cobbler system add --name=test2 --profile=centos-5.3-xen-x86_64 > --virt-type=xenpv --ip=192.168.62.76 --static=yes > --subnet=255.255.254.0 --gateway=192.168.62.40 --virt-cpus=2 > --virt-ram=4096 > cobbler system add --name=test3 --profile=centos-5.3-xen-x86_64 > --virt-type=xenpv --ip=192.168.62.77 --static=yes > --subnet=255.255.254.0 --gateway=192.168.62.40 --virt-cpus=2 > --virt-ram=4096 > > On the virtual server: > > koan --server=admin --virt --system=test1 > koan --server=admin --virt --system=test2 > koan --server=admin --virt --system=test3 > > Discovered failures during testing -- which eventually were traced to > the exhaustion of all available DHCP client leases. > > Specifying the MAC address of the physical host fails. If I pick some > other MAC address, how do I avoid picking one already in use? > > Is there a way to tell koan to begin the kickstart using a specified > IP address, instead of acquiring the initial address via DHCP?
According to Michael, you should be able to use --static-interface=eth0 to solve this problem. ---------------------------- Regards, Alex -- Senior Software Engineer Red Hat 919.754.4445 _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
