Re: [cobbler] Cobbler-side installs to KVM, VMware?

[Eldred, Doug]

Yes, we would like to be able to initiate the install from the Cobbler web or CL: enable
netboot via the web, reboot via the web, etc.

The primary use case is Autotest, and it would be nice if we could treat physical
boxes/blades and virtual machines the same.  However, we also envision engineers wanting
to reinstall their own machines, and one way regardless of real/virtual would be nice;
teaching everyone two ways to do one thing seems silly if it can be avoided.

Regards,
Doug
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MC Linux Infrastructure, 970-898-4860, Fort Collins 3UR8 (MS 57)
"Adding more [is] less successful than doing less really well." -- Sheila
Coleman

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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Eldred, Doug <doug.eldred(a)hp.com&gt; wrote:
>  I'm looking for an example, specifically showing the
> "power" settings in Cobbler, for how to initiate a Cobbler-side install to a KVM
> or VMware virtual machine.  Most of what I've found so far involves using koan, not
> using the Cobbler side to kick things off.
>  
So... koan is cobbler's took for doing these things.  So that is
technically correct.  Do you mean from Cobbler Web?


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Cobbler-side installs to KVM, VMware?

[Greg Swift]

I've bounced this idea around a bit in my head.  I'm not 100% sure how
we would get the final implementation done, but i think it should be
feasible.  I'm not sure what the current thoughts on it are, and I'm
not sure when I'll get back to it.

In my pondering I've wondered if maybe there should be a koan webui
that is a bit more cloudy?  ie: its less about the configuration of
profiles and such and more of the consumption of those profiles?  It
could just be a subsection if you are logged into cobbler, but its own
if you log into it directly?

The nice thing for re-installs is that the koan cli tool is very self
service for that purpose, and so is the cobbler pxe boot menu.  But
that requires people to configure in cobbler and then use in the boot
or cli.. so that doesn't really meet your direct need i guess.

-greg

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Eldred, Doug <doug.eldred(a)hp.com&gt; wrote:
>  Yes, we would like to be able to initiate the install from the
> Cobbler web or CL: enable netboot via the web, reboot via the web, etc.
>
>  The primary use case is Autotest, and it would be nice if we could treat physical
> boxes/blades and virtual machines the same.  However, we also envision engineers wanting
> to reinstall their own machines, and one way regardless of real/virtual would be nice;
> teaching everyone two ways to do one thing seems silly if it can be avoided.
>
>  Regards,
>  Doug
>  ----
>  MC Linux Infrastructure, 970-898-4860, Fort Collins 3UR8 (MS 57)
>  "Adding more [is] less successful than doing less really well." -- Sheila
> Coleman
>
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>  On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Eldred, Doug <doug.eldred(a)hp.com&gt; wrote:
> > I'm looking for an example, specifically showing the "power" settings
> in Cobbler, for how to initiate a Cobbler-side install to a KVM or VMware virtual machine.
>  Most of what I've found so far involves using koan, not using the Cobbler side to
> kick things off.
>
>  So... koan is cobbler's took for doing these things.  So that is
>  technically correct.  Do you mean from Cobbler Web?
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