Re: Xen VM and Static IP

[Paras pradhan]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Michael DeHaan<mdehaan(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>  On 08/04/2009 06:41 PM, Paras pradhan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have created a profile using
> >
> >   cobbler profile add --name=myxenprofile --distro=centos-xen-x86_64
> > --kickstart=/opt/guest2-vm--ks.cfg
> >
> > ks file looks like:
> >
> >
> > -----
> > install
> > nfs --server=nfsserver --dir=/centos64
> > lang en_US.UTF-8
> > network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip  X.X.X.40 --netmask
> > 255.255.255.0 --gateway X.X.X.5 --nameserver X.X.X.93 --hostname
> > vmguest --onboot=on
> > rootpw --iscrypted $1$k5/VMCHk$Ykdy/1qdt3GL2s490jvGP/
> > firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
> > authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
> > selinux --enforcing
> > timezone --utc America/Chicago
> > bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda --append="console=xvc0"
> > # The following is the partition information you requested
> > # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
> > # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
> > # not guaranteed to work
> > #clearpart --linux --drives=xvda
> > #part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=xvda
> > #part pv.2 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=xvda
> > #volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
> > #logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow
> > #logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00
> > --size=528 --grow --maxsize=1056
> >
> > %packages
> > @editors
> > @text-internet
> > @dialup
> > @core
> > @base
> > device-mapper-multipath
> > -----
> >
> > At the client side (where I want my VM to be created), I did
> >
> >   koan --virt --server=cobblerserver --profile=myxenprofile --nogfx
> >
> > ..
> >
> > But why the installation procedure is not taking X.X.X.40 and asking
> > me to enter ip, mask, gw and dns?
> >
> >
>
>  If that's your kickstart wrapping the network line and not the mail
>  reader, that would be it. Syntax errors in a kickstart file can make a
>  kickstart go interactive. 
Thats just a wrapping. in this email. it is fine inside the file....

>  Try "cobbler validateks" and see if it gets anything. 
I got this:

*** all kickstarts seem to be ok ***




>  I also see that your password info is not escaped. Remember Cobbler uses
>  kickstart templates, not kickstarts, so you can't just pass things in
>  verbatim. I'm not sure if you were sharing the contents or the template
>  or the results of "cobbler profile getks --name=foo" but that's
>  something to start with. 
That was the o/p of:

cobbler profile getks --name=myxenprofile

> > What's wrong this ?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Paras.
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Thanks
Paras.