On 07/06/2009 11:41 AM, Glenn Bailey wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>>
> So the VMs would technically install via PXE, but it's a script to kick
> off the "shell" of the VM, hopefully getting the information about how
> much RAM and disk and so forth from Cobbler before talking to VMware?
>
> Yes, this sounds good to me.
>
Yes, create a system in cobbler, have the script then create a new VM via
the toolkit in Virtual Center, then update the Cobbler profile with the MAC
of the new VM, boot the VM, then have it build.
I think I saw that the command line will just be an interface for the XMLRPC
API, so I should look into just calling this API directly?
Yes. I think that's exactly what it will want to do.
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