i see that you solved your problem, so i'm not attempting to assist, just offering some additional info for the community.
we also had a need for identifying VMware systems, primarily for auto-installing VMware tools. however, using the MAC address was not an option for us as we can and will change MAC addresses on our systems, physical and virtual alike. i opted to use `dmidecode` to check the "Manufacturer" which is something like "VMware, Inc." on VMware VMs. however, there are many other ways to determine if a system is a VMware. for instance `lspci` will report the VGA adapter as "VMware SVGA II Adapter" on VMs as well. we do our VMware detection outside of cobbler in rc.local so that we can catch VMs and install the tools on first boot. i'm sure there are other ways of accomplishing the same goal, but rc.local seemed appropriate at the time. i can provide an example of this if anyone is interested. just FYI byron -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luc de Louw Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: How to find out the MAC address of a system Dear all, I tried the VMWare detection snipped at https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartSnippets and it fails, no MAC address found. $system.interfaces['eth0']['mac_address'] does not show anything. cobbler system dumpvars --name=blah shows the mac_address as expected. Used cobbler version: 2.0.3 Any hints? Thanks, Luc _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
