ESX import patch

[Hyclak, Matthew]

All,

This patch let us import an ESX 3.5u2 ISO into cobbler. I can never get
git-send to work or whatever, so I'm just including it here since it's only a
couple lines.

Michael said some work might be needed on koan. We haven't gotten that far
yet with our current deployment of cobbler, so if anyone else out there is
using ESX and Cobbler, let me know if there's anything that needs addressed.

Thanks,
Matt

diff --git a/cobbler/action_import.py b/cobbler/action_import.py
index 05c7e7b..a5bc1d9 100644
--- a/cobbler/action_import.py
+++ b/cobbler/action_import.py
@@ -710,6 +710,8 @@ def guess_breed(kerneldir,path):
        'Fedora/rpms' : "redhat",
        'CentOS/RPMS' : "redhat",
        'CentOS/rpms' : "redhat",
+       'VMware/RPMS' : "redhat",
+       'VMware/rpms' : "redhat",
        'Packages'    : "redhat",
        'Server'      : "redhat",
     }
@@ -886,6 +888,9 @@ class RedHatImporter ( BaseImporter ) :
        for x in [ "2AS", "2ES", "2WS", "2Desktop"
]:
           if rpm.find(x) != -1:
              return ("redhat", 2, 0)
+       for x in [ "vmw" ]:
+          if rpm.find(x) != -1:
+             return ("redhat", 3, 0)
 
        # now get the flavor:
        flavor = "redhat"
(END)         



-- 
Matt Hyclak
Systems and Operations 
Office of Information Technology
Ohio University
[phone]

[Michael DeHaan]

Matt Hyclak wrote:
>  All,
>
>  This patch let us import an ESX 3.5u2 ISO into cobbler. I can never get
>  git-send to work or whatever, so I'm just including it here since it's only a
>  couple lines.
>
>  Michael said some work might be needed on koan. We haven't gotten that far
>  yet with our current deployment of cobbler, so if anyone else out there is
>  using ESX and Cobbler, let me know if there's anything that needs addressed.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Matt
>     
So this is for deploying ESX /hosts/ with Cobbler, not guests, right?   
(Given VMware's OS is essentally a rebuild of old RHEL source and you 
are importing it)

I think the one major thing we wanted to do in the future was extend the 
existing VMware support in koan to also support ESX -- right now it does 
VMware
server and workstation, so I suspect it wouldn't be much of a stretch.

Something you might be interested in looking at?

--Michael

>  diff --git a/cobbler/action_import.py b/cobbler/action_import.py
>  index 05c7e7b..a5bc1d9 100644
>  --- a/cobbler/action_import.py
>  +++ b/cobbler/action_import.py
>  @@ -710,6 +710,8 @@ def guess_breed(kerneldir,path):
>          'Fedora/rpms' : "redhat",
>          'CentOS/RPMS' : "redhat",
>          'CentOS/rpms' : "redhat",
>  +       'VMware/RPMS' : "redhat",
>  +       'VMware/rpms' : "redhat",
>          'Packages'    : "redhat",
>          'Server'      : "redhat",
>       }
>  @@ -886,6 +888,9 @@ class RedHatImporter ( BaseImporter ) :
>          for x in [ "2AS", "2ES", "2WS",
> "2Desktop" ]:
>             if rpm.find(x) != -1:
>                return ("redhat", 2, 0)
>  +       for x in [ "vmw" ]:
>  +          if rpm.find(x) != -1:
>  +             return ("redhat", 3, 0)
>   
>          # now get the flavor:
>          flavor = "redhat"
>  (END)         
>
>
>
>    
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[Hyclak, Matthew]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:47:16AM -0400, Michael DeHaan enlightened us:
>  Matt Hyclak wrote:
>  > All,
>  >
>  > This patch let us import an ESX 3.5u2 ISO into cobbler. I can never get
>  > git-send to work or whatever, so I'm just including it here since it's only
> a
>  > couple lines.
>  >
>  > Michael said some work might be needed on koan. We haven't gotten that far
>  > yet with our current deployment of cobbler, so if anyone else out there is
>  > using ESX and Cobbler, let me know if there's anything that needs addressed.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Matt
>  >   
>  
>  So this is for deploying ESX /hosts/ with Cobbler, not guests, right?   
>  (Given VMware's OS is essentally a rebuild of old RHEL source and you 
>  are importing it)
>  
Correct, the ESX install uses Anaconda (ESX 3.5 is based on RHEL3), so it is
kickstartable. We have about 16-18 ESX hosts here that have not been
standardized. We'd like to change that and get standard
partitioning/configuration/etc. on the hosts, too. 

>  I think the one major thing we wanted to do in the future was extend
> the 
>  existing VMware support in koan to also support ESX -- right now it does 
>  VMware
>  server and workstation, so I suspect it wouldn't be much of a stretch.
>  
>  Something you might be interested in looking at? 
Eventually, yes. Right now time just won't allow for that. We're ramping up
cobbler and puppet both right now. Once those get into a steady state we can
look at extending the ESX support.

Matt

-- 
Matt Hyclak
Systems and Operations 
Office of Information Technology
Ohio University
[phone]