[cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)

2012-10-18 Thread Jakov Sosic
Hi. Is it possible to PXE XenServer domU with cobbler? I've been looking around but have somehow missed documentation on this one... -- Jakov Sosic www.srce.unizg.hr ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org

Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)

2012-10-18 Thread Jakov Sosic
On 10/18/2012 12:18 PM, Jakov Sosic wrote: Hi. Is it possible to PXE XenServer domU with cobbler? I've been looking around but have somehow missed documentation on this one... I've tried with cobbler buildiso, but the iso won't boot in paravirtualized environment, only when domU is in HVM

Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)

2012-10-18 Thread James Clendenan
That's correct I believe for Xen in general. PXE's usually only available in HVM mode, but not in para mode. You might need to build the machines in HVM mode and then have some kind of a trigger to have the host switch the mode? I haven't done it, but just thinking it might be a strategy to

Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)

2012-10-18 Thread Jakov Sosic
On 10/18/2012 06:11 PM, James Clendenan wrote: That's correct I believe for Xen in general. PXE's usually only available in HVM mode, but not in para mode. You might need to build the machines in HVM mode and then have some kind of a trigger to have the host switch the mode? I haven't done

Re: [cobbler] How Anaconda Detects Hard Drives

2012-10-18 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 10/11/2012 04:28 PM, Bob Cochran wrote: Greetings, I have a system which is essentially a network attached storage server. It has FreeNAS 8.2.0 running on it from a USB flash drive, and approximately 12 Tb of RAIDed storage across 9 hard drives. These drives are connected to two (2) IBM

Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)

2012-10-18 Thread James Cammarata
On Oct 18, 2012 12:47 PM, Jörgen Maas jorgen.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Jakov Sosic jso...@srce.hr wrote: Well I don't necessary need PXE, I can boot live CD, but how to force 'cobbler buildiso' to build paravirtualized kernel/initrd into it's generated.iso?!

Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)

2012-10-18 Thread André Gemünd
Hi, may I ask for what you need that exactly? I always use koan for XenPV, and think its really convenient. koan --virt to install new machines over the wire and --replace-self on existing machines for reinstallations. Since that works flawlessly, I've never used PXE on VMs anymore. But