[Mageia-sysadm] VMs installation

[Bradley D. Thornton]

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Thanks Michael :)

That actually helps out a lot with another project I'm launching too, as
trying to keep up with virtual inventory is tough due to the lag between
running out of inventory and the arrival of new servers to provide fresh
products in inventory.

Bradley.

On 03/30/2011 03:13 AM, Michael Scherer wrote:
> As asked by packagers last week during packager meeting
> ( http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2011/mageia-dev.2011-03-23-20.02.log.html#l-201 ), I am installing 6 vms ( 32/64, kde/gnome/lxde ) on rabbit to test upgrade. 
> 
> In the process, I have added various stuff to the libvirt module, like :
> - a helper to declare storage pool ( soon to be replicated for network,
> for pxe integration )
> - a helper to download boot.iso or others files for distribution net
> installation.
> 
> While this may seem overkill, I faced the issue on zarb.org yesterday
> with our tftp server not being fully populated. So I tried to automate
> this as much as possible for the future. See
> libvirtd::download::netboot_images usage in nodes.pp
> 
> I have created a python script to add the vm automatically, I attach it
> here for those that are interested ( and for distributed backup ). In
> the future, this could be used to create vm, start them with pxe and
> have them ready to be used for test ( be it upgrade test, iso test or
> anything ).
> 
> And I am planning ( well, writing on the whiteboard ) on adding tftp,
> pxe etc to puppet so we can have automated installation, as VMs were
> installed by hand.
> 
> 
> 
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