Jeff Schroeder wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Rodrique Heron swygue@rodhouse.org wrote:
What you layout is the best aproach, I work in many windows enviroments and RIS sucks, so we have always depend on imgaging to roll out new Windows desktops to servers. If the brialiant coders could figure out a way to have cobbler clone an existing system and redeploy it anyware, that would satisfy the Windows admins I know.
Here is an insane idea for you to chew on. Perhaps someone could take the virt-p2v[1] livecd and make it smart enough to spit out a "cloneable" image that could be pxe-deployed by cobbler?
Need to look more at the internals of that.
What Andrew had was kind of like p2v ... used a live media to clone the disk image using partimage-ng to NFS, and the same image had a loader mode.
Check this out here... https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/PhysicalSystemCloneFeature
How about we try to get this going again?
I think it mostly worked in his lab install... though I was seeing some issues with it... and we might want to try to speed it up or do something else slightly different using the same general idea.
There are a lot of smart folks on this list, I'm sure we can figure something out.
--Michael