Bob, To be honest, I run a similar setup at home. However, I have one kickstart for everything - bare metal as well as VMs... You can get pretty fancy with the Cheetah templating engine if you really need customization for each of the VMs...
Flossy ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Cochran" <[email protected]> > To: "cobbler-list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 3:45:27 PM > Subject: [cobbler] Virtualization Host Kickstart > > Hi! > > I want to put one of my Opteron boxes to better use and have it run > a > bunch of virtual machines. Each VM will have a specific job. > > I am under the impression that Fedora 17 x86_64 might be the best > choice > of virtual machine host, and I have this distro installed under > cobbler. > I also have CentOS 6.2 x86_64 installed as a cobbler distro, and I > could > use that as a host as well. Or I could get some other OS and install > that into cobbler as a distro. > > With that understanding, I think my game plan is supposed to run like > this: > > 1. First I install my virtual machine host with cobbler. I just craft > a > kickstart that installs Fedora 17 to the machine that will run all > the > VMs. The kickstart file that cobbler will use doesn't need to be > fancy. > I only need to install the @base and @Virtualization package groups. > I > shouldn't even need X. > > 2. Then install each of the virtual machine guests one by one using > koan. Each of these will need their own individual kickstart files. > > Am I on the right track here? > > Thanks > > Bob Cochran > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > -- Make It So Number One _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
