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
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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
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System x 3650
System x 3655
System x 3850 M2
Oh, and my nick on irc is "replicant" ..
glenn - terremark worldwide