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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