On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:51:53 -0400, Jonathan Sabo <jsabo(a)criminal.org>
wrote:
I'm interested and I would like to test it out. I haven't
had a
chance to check it out yet. I've found that ESX doesn't support ip
append 2 and that makes it difficult to do the scripted installs if
the first interface isn't the one being used to do the install. I
think VMware is moving away from ESX and the service console. I've
heard that I'm not 100% sure... I'm also interested in seeing how
this might integrate with the python tftp daemon and fetchable files
rather than using triggers. I haven't looked at this yet though but I
will shortly.
Have you spent any time looking at using koan to create the vmware
guests or if it makes sense to add additional fields to Cobbler for
VMware specific data?
I would like to, yes, but haven't yet. That's another discussion that has
come up many times in the past. I'm assuming it's a royal pain to get
working, as no one's done it yet :)
I also noticed ESXi is really, REALLY, picky about the append line - to the
point where order of arguments matters. I'm not sure if it even supports
the ksdevice=IF option correctly or setting the static IP info - I had the
most luck just letting it DHCP and letting the MAC search sort things out.
Thankfully the pre/post work like normal (as long as your shell commands
are compatible with the version of busybox ESXi uses).
I'd also like to look at the fetchable files stuff to avoid the triggers,
just not sure what the status on it is - I couldn't find any documentation
and it didn't appear to be working quite right from my attempts to use it
like template files.
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