Ok,
Thought about this a bit more.
The Perl script would query the Cobbler server, if it find a machine with
a certain "tag" such as Virt Type = VirtualCenter or whatever, it will then
check if a MAC has been assigned. If no MAC is assigned, it would then
send a request to VirtualCenter to create the VM, which would then in turn
return the MAC address. It would then update the Cobbler profile for the server
with the MAC address, power on the server, and let the auto build start.
I think I like this, though it would be nice to just be able to specify
a specific system to vivify as well.
This could be either daemonized or ran how ever often from cron, with
the idea
of it being seamless .. Just let it handle all the backend communication with
the VirtualCenter server and manage everything else in Cobbler.
Question would be, would I want to add another "Virt Type" to Cobbler with
something like "ESX", or would I want to just add something in the Comments
that could be parsed out?
Making an ESX virt type is good sense, I think.
There was some talk earlier of trying to just have one common VMware
virt type (ESX+server+workstation though I'm not certain
this makes sense).
Any other suggestions welcomed on this as well ;-)
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