Hosts do show up as being Virtual, if you check the Hardware specs under "dmi info" the vendor should show up as VMWare, Inc. and System should show up as VMWare Virtual Platform. Even the Asset tag is pre-populated with VMWare information. At least thats what it does for me under v2 of spacewalk.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Albert, > The whole idea of ESX server is that the OS should have no clue, its > probably a bit unreasonable to expect Satellite to know it is registering a > server that is actually on a ESX machine. You could probably use dmidecode > to detect this but it would have to programmed into spacewalk/satellite. The > virtualization in satellite is only for xen but I think should be flexible > enought to adapt for other virtualization platforms especially given xen's > limited future with Redhat. > > Regards > > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Albert Bryndza > Sent: 02 October 2008 17:14 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Spacewalk-list] How do I register Centos clients as "virtual" > inSpacewalk? > > At the moment I use: > > > > rhnreg_ks --force --serverUrl=http://spacewalk.my_company.com/XMLRPC > --activationkey=my_activation_key > > > > The system shows up, but not as virtual, yet, it's a client running on ESX. > > Thanks. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > -- ~matt _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
