In that case... you probably just need to fix your DHCP server and tell it to pass out valid DNS servers. :-) Not sure why that would differ between VMs and physicals though, unless they are hitting a different pool or something.
Yeah, the VMware determination is something fairly new to Spacewalk. Well... at least newer than version 0.6. :-) Glad you got it working. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Rakow Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] PXE booting a VMWare server So, some deeper Googling came up with the solution, as it looks like someone had the same problem before. I had to change a line in the /etc/cobbler/settings file from the c-name to the IP address. server: host_name to server: ip.address.of.host With out this it would load the stage 2, format the file systems, then get lost. The boot sector was already written to, so to get it to PXE again, it had to be "rescued" and a dd done to the 1st 512 (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1). Also Mark and Ryan, my systems show up as VMWare virtual guests in Spacewalk, not physical servers. Scott On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Scott Rakow <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Still been playing around with this and I still can't get it to work correctly. I get through the stage 2, then get the error message: Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: anaconda-base-201004270002.x86_64. Please verify its path and try again. I have been able to use this to build physical servers, so what would the difference be? Scott On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Mark Watts <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:13:59 -0700, "Kennedy, Ryan" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Interesting... this is true but only for the hosts I have kickstarted > since upgrading from Spacewalk 0.6 to 1.4. I wondered why they were > showing with the white icon instead of the usual gray/blue one. > > Now I have a question... how do I get previously kickstarted/managed hosts > (all VMware guest VMs mind you) to show up as virtual systems? Not that it > makes much of a difference but this could prove to be a point of confusion > for some folks in my organization. I've started at Spacewalk 1.3 so I'm not sure when this feature came in. I'd suspect that running a "rhn-profile-sync" would update such things. Mark. -- Mark Watts BSc RHCE http://www.linux-corner.info/ _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list PAML EMAIL DISCLAIMER: Information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, be notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If this communication is received in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the message and deleting from your computer. Thank you
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