On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 12:08 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
Jiri Konecny jkonecny@redhat.com writes:
Hi, the only change should be that you will change "vnc --connect" with the new API we will provide and also use RDP as your client instead of VNC.
Thanks. I don't particularly care about VNC itself; I just wanted to make sure that it was known that someone does use "--connect" to do a "client-initiated" display connection.
Off topic, I know, but what I really wish existed was some kind of deployment console. Early in the kickstart process, the machine being installed would contact a server, pass hardware info and wait.
I think we already send some (configurable) identifier when talking to DHCP [0], which could be used to forward a matching kickstart to the machine. I'm not sure but we might even do something similar in the call trying to fetch the kickstart over network ?
[0] https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boot-options.html#inst-d... Not the same thing you suggest, but close. And of course I guess one could generate specific images with Image Builder with the right kickstart baked in.
The server would pass back the rest of the kickstart file (after potentially getting admin input) and the installation would continue. Output would be logged in a way that the server can present to the admin, and potentially the graphical (or perhaps the text) UI could be passed through.
Years ago I had hacked something implementing a little of this which just worked in %pre but it ended up being less useful than the system I use now. And really, I don't think that deployments like mine (maybe a couple hundred machines) are very common so there's probably no point. But it's an interesting problem to think about.
- J<
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