[Gllug] RHEL Virtualisation Puzzle

[Kostas Georgiou]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:05:41PM +0100, Kostas Georgiou wrote:

> 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.

I don't think that virt-install can be run under %post since the
anaconda kernel isn't the xen one. 

Kostas
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