Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)
Hi, may I ask for what you need that exactly? I always use koan for XenPV, and think its really convenient. koan --virt to install new machines over the wire and --replace-self on existing machines for reinstallations. Since that works flawlessly, I've never used PXE on VMs anymore. But still, you can use pypxeboot for Xen machines, although I wouldn't know why. Greetings André - Ursprüngliche Mail - > Hi. > > Is it possible to PXE XenServer domU with cobbler? I've been looking > around but have somehow missed documentation on this one... > > > -- > Jakov Sosic > www.srce.unizg.hr > ___ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > -- André Gemünd Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing andre.gemu...@scai.fraunhofer.de Tel: +49 2241 14-2193 /C=DE/O=Fraunhofer/OU=SCAI/OU=People/CN=Andre Gemuend ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)
On Oct 18, 2012 12:47 PM, "Jörgen Maas" wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Jakov Sosic wrote: >> >> >> >> Well I don't necessary need PXE, I can boot live CD, but how to force >> 'cobbler buildiso' to build paravirtualized kernel/initrd into it's >> generated.iso?! >> > > I dont think that's up to cobbler > Just add a another distro object with the proper kernel/initrd's > When you imported the distribution, cobbler should have created a version of the distro/profile that ended with -xen. Use that instead and you should be good to go. ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Re: [cobbler] How Anaconda Detects Hard Drives
On 10/11/2012 04:28 PM, Bob Cochran wrote: Greetings, I have a system which is essentially a network attached storage server. It has FreeNAS 8.2.0 running on it from a USB flash drive, and approximately 12 Tb of RAIDed storage across 9 hard drives. These drives are connected to two (2) IBM M1015 SAS host adapters. (Forgive me, I'm still new to network storage and didn't understand I can use an SAS expander in combination with the SAS HBAs until yesterday.) There is a 10th hard drive which is an SSD drive and which is not connected to anything right now -- not to the SAS HBAs and not to the SuperMicro motherboard's SATA ports. I want to connect this SSD drive to the box and then use Cobbler to install Fedora 17 specifically to the SSD. The Fedora installation will become a virtual machine host and will run a bunch of guests that do various things. In fact I want to turn FreeNAS into a vm. My question is, do I need to disconnect all the NAS hard drives in order to make certain that anaconda won't decide to format and use a storage drive instead of the SSD? I would rather not risk the data that is on those storage drives. Or is there a kickstart option to show me a list of the enumerated hard drives and let me pick the one for the Fedora 17 install? If I plug the SSD into the motherboard's SATA connector, will that automatically be assigned /dev/sda if no other SATA ports on the motherboard are in use? What if I plug in an SAS host adapter line instead? Use /dev/disk/by-path (or -id/-uuid) addresses. E.g. for my disk servers I do: clearpart --linux --drives=/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0,/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0 part raid.1 --size=200 --ondisk=/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0 part raid.2 --size=200 --ondisk=/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0 part raid.3 --size=4 --grow --ondisk=/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0 part raid.4 --size=4 --grow --ondisk=/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0 This ensures that the install does to the disk you want. The trick is to find out the path names. You can boot the installer or live image to do some poking around. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Jakov Sosic wrote: > > > Well I don't necessary need PXE, I can boot live CD, but how to force > 'cobbler buildiso' to build paravirtualized kernel/initrd into it's > generated.iso?! > > I dont think that's up to cobbler Just add a another distro object with the proper kernel/initrd's -- Grtz, Jörgen Maas ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)
On 10/18/2012 06:11 PM, James Clendenan wrote: > That's correct I believe for Xen in general. PXE's usually only > available in HVM mode, but not in para mode. > > You might need to build the machines in HVM mode and then have some kind > of a trigger to have the host switch the mode? I haven't done it, but > just thinking it might be a strategy to look at. Well I don't necessary need PXE, I can boot live CD, but how to force 'cobbler buildiso' to build paravirtualized kernel/initrd into it's generated.iso?! I would rather not have to manually move from HVM to paravirt, if it's possible. ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)
That's correct I believe for Xen in general. PXE's usually only available in HVM mode, but not in para mode. You might need to build the machines in HVM mode and then have some kind of a trigger to have the host switch the mode? I haven't done it, but just thinking it might be a strategy to look at. James Clendenan On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Jakov Sosic wrote: > On 10/18/2012 12:18 PM, Jakov Sosic wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Is it possible to PXE XenServer domU with cobbler? I've been looking > > around but have somehow missed documentation on this one... > > I've tried with "cobbler buildiso", but the iso won't boot in > paravirtualized environment, only when domU is in HVM mode... > ___ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Re: [cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)
On 10/18/2012 12:18 PM, Jakov Sosic wrote: > Hi. > > Is it possible to PXE XenServer domU with cobbler? I've been looking > around but have somehow missed documentation on this one... I've tried with "cobbler buildiso", but the iso won't boot in paravirtualized environment, only when domU is in HVM mode... ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
[cobbler] PXE of xen domU (XenCenter)
Hi. Is it possible to PXE XenServer domU with cobbler? I've been looking around but have somehow missed documentation on this one... -- Jakov Sosic www.srce.unizg.hr ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
