[Gllug] RHEL Virtualisation Puzzle
Kostas Georgiou
k.georgiou at imperial.ac.uk
Tue Jul 29 14:05:41 UTC 2008
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:44:44PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:16:53AM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> > I'm currently looking at generating kickstart templates, per host and
> > VM, which will daisy-chain. So, for example, the host would get a
> > base install, puppet would be run, firing off tempklated virt-installs
> > which in turn call crafted kickstart scripts. All IPs would be
> > allocated dynamically, I think, and re-ip'd after QA.
> >
> > Does this sound like the right sort of approach? Or has anyone
> > experience / ideas of a better way?
>
> It sounds right.
>
> I guess another way would be to have virt-install in the %post section
> of the host install, with a computed MAC address for each guest, and
> booting them with the --pxe option so they boot/install from your PXE
> server.
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