I've done something similar and you don't need to reregister. Will post details when in office in a couple of hours.
On 25 Aug 2010 00:20, "Colin Coe" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Ian Forde <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all - strange question here... >> >> Server: Spacewalk 1.1 (freshly upgraded, but I've also experienced this >> on Spacewalk 1.0) >> >> I had 2 sets of VMware Server boxes, called vmserver 1-4. vmserver1/2 >> utilized the same NFS storage for nodes, and vmserver3/4 utilized a >> separate NFS share, so that they could share nodes. Last week I >> migrated the whole shebang over to KVM. (Twas a little painful, as each >> VM had to be hand-tweaked after booting from iso, but whatever...) >> >> Anyhoo - I ended up having to delete the guest registrations from >> Spacewalk as they didn't show up as being fully virtualized. (I checked >> the archives and found that someone else ran into this and fixed it by >> tweaking Oracle directly - I'm not one to reach into Oracle to do that >> so...) >> >> I reregistered the systems and resubscribed them to the appropriate >> Software Channels, Configuration Channels, and Groups. The problem is >> that the Software Channel subscriptions show with the "red star", and a >> note at the bottom stating: "NOTE: These channels are not part of the >> Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription for this guest's host, vmserver1. >> Subscribing to them will consume additional software entitlements. >> Applying a different virtual system entitlement to the host system will >> affect which channels have this mark." >> >> ??? >> >> So I've set vmserver1 to use the Virtualization Platform - no change. >> Just Virtualization? No change. What's going on here? >> >> oh - and when I change the entitlement for vmserver1, it gives a message >> about having done some other things under the hood with a >> link-to-nowhere promising details... >> >> -I > > Are you saying you migrated from VMware to RHEL KVM, meaning > vmserver[1-4] are now RHEL5 running guests under KVM? > > If this is the case then setting 'virtualisation' or > 'virtualisation_platform' entitlements on vmserver[1-4] then running > rhn_check on vmserver[1-4] should go along way to fixing this. I've > found it best to wait at least 10-20 seconds between setting the virt > entitlements and running rhn_check. You will also need to re-register > all you guests. > > If vmserver[1-4] are still running VMware, then I would expect each of > the guests to consume a subscription, in line with RedHat policy. > > CC > > -- > RHCE#805007969328369 > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
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