For those of you wishing to do fully-automated fully-virtualized Xen installations (as opposed to Xen paravirt, qemu, or KVM which it did already), that is now doable from koan.
It requires the virt install libraries that are in Fedora 8.

The process is pretty simple. You first need to be running Cobbler from git (development branch) and koan from git also (there is no
development branch yet for koan).

From the bootserver, tell cobbler to set up a virtual system. This assumes that cobbler is also managing your PXE configuration, as this installation
will happen via PXE.

# cobbler system add --name=virttest --mac=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF --profile=rhel4-i386 --virt-type=xenfv [...]
# cobbler sync  (to restart DHCP)

Now, request the new virtual installation from koan. # koan --server=bootserver.example.org --virt --system=virttest

The installation will take place over a hybrid of PXE and Cobbler XMLRPC, resulting in a fully virtualized Xen install, fully automated
all the way through.   That's it!

I'll add some docs on this to the Wiki ( https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/cobbler/ ).

Hi

I am wondering if this functionality is in the 0.8x of cobbler/koan or if this is still needed to be checked out the development branch?

Also is this likely to work on a RHEL5.1 cobbler server or will i have to go fedora for that ?

thanks



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