[Gllug] RHEL Virtualisation Puzzle

[Richard Jones]

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.

Rich.

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