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
> 
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