I've actually built out rhev hosts with cobbler and automated their hook up to a redhat satellite. Personally I like to run more software then what a rhev image loads. Keeping with the script build mentality, which is imho better then image builds, because you maintain flexibility and know exactly what went into the build.
-Dave Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -----Original Message----- From: Michael DeHaan [michael.deh...@gmail.com] Received: Saturday, 10 Mar 2012, 8:52am To: cobbler mailing list [cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org] Subject: Re: [cobbler] Cobbler in the cloud I'll chime in here. The virt "image" support in cobbler is pretty well tacked on -- it was originally developed to just track a library of images on NFS (crazy feature request that I maybe shouldn't have accepted) and I don't think it's very useful for that. It mostly likes to deploy things via kickstart installation, which will typically take maybe an extra 5 minutes per install versus an image. Cobbler is well suited to deploying the open source hypervisors UNDER a cloud, though, which is more or less what Ubuntu Orchestra customized Cobbler to do for I guess Xen or KVM. It's basically just a reskinned Cobbler with some kickstarts and helper scripts (to the point where I think there's no reason why that's a seperate project with all the UI branding -- it could have just been a few scripts). If your cloud solution allows you to set a MAC address in advance (I believe RHEV does this), it's possible to PXE boot cloud nodes with Cobbler (or maybe it allows pasting in kernel params like ks=). I forget, but people have done this. Not all of the clouds require images. For a long time I had considered a rudimentary cloud module in Cobbler that just kept up with the number of VMs on various nodes and their free storage and decided where to run a koan command to 'place' the install. That's nothing like vcenter/ESX though and would only be appropriate for small lab cases. (Hmm, maybe something you could do with Ansible?) Anyhow, I hope that helps? On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:05 AM, James Cammarata <j...@sngx.net> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Ronald J. Yacketta > <yacke...@potsdam.edu> wrote: >> Hello all! >> >> Currently working on a R&D Cloud project evaluating various OpenSource Cloud >> solutions. While playing around with Eucalyptus and OpenStack I was >> wondering if their was a way to integrate Cobbler with either solution to >> create the required guest vm's. >> >> Has anyone traveled down this road before? if so, might you provide some >> insight / url's or other documentation? > > Right now, cobbler is mostly useful for building and maintaining the > images you would deploy into the cloud. Alternatively, if you deploy a > simple image that just does a netboot, you can deploy a much simpler > image into your cloud and customize it via cobbler. > > Ideally though, I would like to see libcloud support added to koan, so > that you could deploy images directly without any extra steps (which > is on my todo list). > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
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