On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Dick Davies<rasput...@hellooperator.net> wrote: > Turns out ESX supports kickstarting; has anyone tried importing > an ESX ISO? > > If not, no worries. I'll try it tomorrow and let you know how I get on.
I have it setup and configured for both ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0. ESX 3.5 is pretty straight forward. It's just a standard Red Hat installation. I think I couldn't do an import and instead had to go down the add distro/add profile route, but it wasn't a problem. ESX 4.0 was a different story. Getting all the bits into a cobbler was no problem, but you have to do some funky stuff to get it to boot and onto the network correctly. The ESX 4.0 installer actually runs in a VM so I had to set the interface on the system object to vmnic0 instead of eth0. Then the DHCP packets come out labeled with the MAC of a virtual NIC and not the physical NIC. The only way I found to fix that was to uses IPAPPEND 1 in the PXE template file. Good luck! --Anthony _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
