I may not be describing what I want clearly. I just wanted to know if there was a way in Cobbler to define your Virtual machine settings (specifically for Vmware vcenter 5.5) - things like CPU, Ram, network cards etc. All the “virtualized” hardware that normally would be a physical server. Kind of “create the virtual machine framework”, then do the pxe boot/kickstart stuff.
I suspect it’s a chicken before the egg situation. I need to have the server there, and then Cobbler steps in. Tim From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Johnson Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 12:36 PM To: cobbler mailing list; R. Christopher Johnson Subject: Re: [cobbler] Creating VM's under ESXi5.5 On 2/18/14, 12:55 PM, Vruwink, Timothy Roger wrote: Hello - I am not finding much information with regards to provisioning guest VM’s under a VMware vCenter 5.5 cluster (esxi 5.5 hosts) using cobbler. I have Cobbler installed as a VM, and was able to PXE boot a guest VM, and install a very basic CentOS VM. However, I had to carve out the storage, setup the base VM, and copy the MAC address into my Cobbler (script?). Is there support in Cobbler to further automate this? Or would I be better off using KVM/Xen or another virtualization solution? Thank you. Tim I use VirtualBox but they all do the same thing. I'm unclear here. You have to define the system to cobbler with cobbler system add somehow and supply all the command line arguments unless you use the web interface. Somehow all that information has to get in there. I use the command line which is a bit lengthy. I wrote a little script to do it. But I still have to supply the interface, MAC address, IP, name, netmask, gateway and DNS information and whatever else is needed. If you're doing lots of nodes you can automate but somehow the information has to get in there. And you still need to create a kickstart for your basic system. VirtualBox has a number of command line tools to create storage and attach it etc. So does libvirt using virsh. A quick look at the VMware pages and looks like it does to. Maybe I'm missing the question? CJ
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