Try these commands to create a vmdk ssh [email protected] mkdir -p /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ vmguest.domain.com
ssh [email protected] vmkfstools -c 64g -d thin -a lsilogic /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/vmguest.domain.com/vmguest.domain.com.vmdk On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Chris Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > >
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