Re: [xcat-user] REST API for VM provisioning

2014-10-20 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
Sorry for the later reply and Good summary. The follow up questions: Have your use xCAT REST API done something? Could I have some background of your project? Thanks Best Regards -- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System

Re: [xcat-user] Good xCAT Book

2014-10-20 Thread Lissa Valletta
Have you tried to use the Official xCAT docuementation. This documentation is kept up to date by the xCAT team. https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Documentation/ If you are on x-series you should start with the following:

Re: [xcat-user] Erro installing with Intel SATA controller

2014-10-20 Thread Fabio Moreira
Hi Arif, I've created the partition file as below and set the parameter partitionfile with chdef. #XCAT_PARTITION_START# part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=256 --ondisk md127 part / --fstype=ext4 --size=86947 --ondisk md127 part swap --size=16384 --ondisk md127 ##XCAT_PARTITION_END#

Re: [xcat-user] Good xCAT Book

2014-10-20 Thread Josh Nielsen
Hi John, I had a similar experience to you in the matter of the documentation only taking me so far and the rest was left to my real world implementations (mostly troubleshooting when things didn't go as expected). xCAT has dependencies on many other things that are assumed to be working already

Re: [xcat-user] Good xCAT Book

2014-10-20 Thread Josh Nielsen
Actually, it occurs to me to ask: Can Jordi's presentation be uploaded to the sourceforge wiki so that it can benefit more people? -Josh On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org wrote: Hi John, I had a similar experience to you in the matter of the

Re: [xcat-user] REST API for VM provisioning

2014-10-20 Thread Frank Moss
Xiao, I am currently setting up a system that will provision systems (via xCAT) on KVM and ESX. As we primarily use KVM that is what we need most imminently. The reason we are using REST is because we have a central portal that handles our deployment (private/hybrid) and are expanding

Re: [xcat-user] Good xCAT Book

2014-10-20 Thread Lissa Valletta
I can ask him. Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org To: xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Lissa Valletta/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS Date: 10/20/2014 01:02 PM Subject:Re: