On 2/18/2014 2:12 PM, Vruwink, Timothy Roger wrote:
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
If I'm reading this right you may be mixing apples and oranges as my
grade school teachers would say. Creating the virtual machine is a
different thing from running cobbler to install it. They need to know
different things. If you want to have cobbler set up a file system then
in the kickstart you need to tell it which virtual drive, what file
system and how big at a minimum. And the network install kernel needs
to know which interface on the client to use from which to fetch the
OS. Although strictly speaking if there is only one interface you
shouldn't, in theory, need to give cobbler a MAC address. I've run into
problem leaving it blank so I always give it on the cobbler system add
line. To do that the VM needs to be created so the MAC address can be
obtained from the VM configuration.
Now if you're going to be installing a lot of nodes (I have a cobbler
server, a backup and eight clients using VirtualBox running on two Macs
and a Windows laptop but by lots I mean anything over 10 say) then yes
you may have a problem getting all the MAC address for example on the
real systems. I know with VrtualBox you can tell it what to use. Sadly
I don't know for sure about the others. Wouldn't surprise me if you
could. The primary MAC address on all the hardware I've installed was
on the carton it came in and/or on the case somewhere. Just copy those
into a file and script the cobbler set up with the command line tools.
Yes, it's a pain if you bought 1024 nodes etc. Have the company send
you a text file with the MAC addresses in it. You should have that and
the matching serial numbers in a file anyway for inventory an warranty
purposes.
CJ.
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