On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:40:36AM -0500, Donny Brooks wrote: > Hello, > > I am starting to test spacewalk in my testbed but have a few > questions first. Reading through the documentation I have been > unable to find a direct enough answer to my situation. So here goes. > > Currently we have a mixture of Fedora and Centos machines. They > range from Fedora 11 to 15 and most of the Centos ones are 5.5 or > 5.6. Currently we have a bunch of physical machines that are various > versions and 3 Xen dom0 servers that are all Centos 5.5 with xen > 4.0.1. If I read correctly spacewalk can provision new domu's on > Xen. Is this correct?
Yes, you can provision new Xen guests. You cannot reprovision paravirt guests thou. > Secondly, since these 3 Xen machines are Centos 5.5, can > spacewalk work properly with them? Would it be better if I were able > to install fedora 15 on them and get xen working on that? That's really your decision to make. > Also I was > wondering, would spacewalk need to be on a physical machine or could > it be in a virtual machine? It can be virtual. > In the end I think we are going to try to move all of our > servers over to Fedora so we can have a consistent versions and > easier management. This will include all of our servers that are not > on the local campus. Should spacewalk be able to manage the remote > locations also? Depends how remove they are -- they need to be able to reach the server so if you have the campus behind NAT, you will have to setup some forwarding/proxies/stuff. -- Jan Pazdziora Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
