Howdy Folks,
I've set aside 4 hours a day, for each day next week to spend time on the "Hacking Cobbler" week. I've already assigned one RFE ticket to myself:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/400
Which I am thinking is what I want, basically just sub-menus in the PXE boot screen to have something like 5Server->i386->Web Build .. If this ticket is not the same, please let me know and I'll create a new request.
Also, before I create a new RFE for the following, I want to make sure they are in scope.
- Import directly from ISO
Instead of mounting an ISO, then importing the tree, then un-mounting the ISO just directly import from the ISO itself. I don't think this is in there yet, and should be easy to implement. This is just me being lazy and not wanting to mount and unmount ;-)
- VitrualCenter integration
This may be a code snippet instead of an actual RFE. Would use the VI perl toolkit and give you the ability to create a VM, then pass the information to cobbler to have it start building upon boot. Would have to be written in perl. Thinking I can knock this out pretty quick, just need to figure out how to interface w/Cobbler .. Either command line, or I think I read there is a XML type API?
- WinPE boot iso import
Would be used in mixed environments to allow PXE booting of the WinPE boot image to use the actual M$ provisioning system. Would not handle any provisioning itself, just a way to allow all folks in the env to PXE boot w/o having to worry about boot ISO's. I'll need to actually try and get the darn thing to boot from pxelinux first before even thinking about Cobbler integration. Thought I would have time this week but such is life ;-)
That should be enough for the 20 hours I'm able to commit next week. Oh, also, I have the following hardware platforms in my lab if anyone needs anything tested on these specific platforms next week:
HP ----------------- Proliant DL360 G5 Proliant DL360 G6 Proliant DL380 G5 Proliant DL380 G6 Proliant DL385 G2 Proliant DL385 G5 Proliant DL580 G5 Proliant DL585 G2 Proliant DL585 G5
IBM ----------------- System x 3650 System x 3655 System x 3850 M2
Oh, and my nick on irc is "replicant" ..
glenn - terremark worldwide