Jared Hodge wrote:
All,
Forgive me if this has been addressed recently, I haven’t been
monitoring the mailing list very closely. A few months ago there was
quite a bit of discussion about support for windows XP (via ris-linux)
and other non-linux operating systems (via cloning). I believe the
decision was made to favor support of cloning over other options. Has
any progress been made on this front? I was going to suggest looking
at including “g4l” (ghost for linux -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/) as the cloning option. It seems
that this would be very easy to get working since it supports ftp
access to the images and already has a bootable linux image for the
cloning tool itself. I would think all that would be needed is an
option to load this bootable image though the current pxe/bootiso
options and possibly add some lipstick to have a clean method of
selecting the image to be used or created on the cobbler server.
Anyway, maybe this discussion has moved to the development mailing
list, but I was just hoping for an update. Thanks.
-Jared
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RIS is a dead end because it does not support newness.
We may investigate cloning in the future but right now have plenty of
ideas going (see cobbler-devel list) so there is not much time to chase
that presently.
We do support virtualized installs via prepared ISOs, as well as
snapshot cloning of virtual VMs (for KVM), which is our preferred route
for now.
"ghost 4 linux" seems like it's waiting for a trademark and other kinds
of legal beatdown just coming from the name. Clonezilla may be in the
running.
TBD, though it is unlikely to happen for Cobbler 2.0, perhaps 2.2.
--Michael
I would be satisfied with being able to boot any iso via cobbler pxe. We use acronis, I
want to try and boot the iso via cobbler iso.