Yes, it should be the last thing before the %end, as you have it.
Have you also set pxe_just_once:1 in your cobbler settings?
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Scot Floess <sfloess(a)redhat.com> wrote:
James,
Curious - is something from the kickstart_done that does the right thing
as far as ensuring "kick start" that KOAN initially uses isn't copied over
or something like that? To be honest, that's what it feels like is
happening ... once installed the VM doesn't have the ability to boot off
the installed bootloader and then simply uses the same "kickstart" to
reinstall again...
I don't know if this may be the issue but at the end of my kickstart, it
looks liek the following:
$SNIPPET('kickstart_done')
%end
Is that out of order maybe?
Thanks!
Flossy
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*From: *"Scot Floess" <sfloess(a)redhat.com>
*To: *"cobbler mailing list" <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
*Sent: *Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:20:34 PM
*Subject: *Re: [cobbler] Using KOAN to install a VM under CentOS 6.4
using CentOS Xen...it installs over and over again
James,
Interesting!
So I have an old kickstart I've been using since Cobbler 1.6x days... In
it I have $kickstart_done - but when executing
cobbler system getks --name=centos-workstation
I see it is not expanded!
So I added the snippet to the end of my kickstart like so:
$SNIPPET('kickstart_done')
And now see:
wget "http://cobbler/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/centos-workstation" -O
/root/cobbler.ks
wget "http://cobbler/cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/post/system/centos-workstation"
-O /dev/null
However, I am still getting the reinstall happening...
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*From: *"James Cammarata" <jimi(a)sngx.net>
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*Sent: *Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:37:53 PM
*Subject: *Re: [cobbler] Using KOAN to install a VM under CentOS 6.4
using CentOS Xen...it installs over and over again
Do you also have the kickstart done ($SNIPPET('kickstart_done')) snippet
included in your %post section? That is the piece which notifies the
cobbler server the PXE is complete and toggles the netboot-enabled flag.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Scot Floess <sfloess(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> I should say I also tried setting netboot-enabled to 0 and verify its not
> enabled in the UI...
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From: *"Scot Floess" <sfloess(a)redhat.com>
> *To: *"cobbler mailing list" <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:33:29 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [cobbler] Using KOAN to install a VM under CentOS 6.4
> using CentOS Xen...it installs over and over again
>
> Bryan,
>
> Thanks for the response!
>
> Alas this isn't a netboot problem - although at first glance I thought
> you were correct. Unfortunately, I'm watching my VM reinstall itself again
> :(
>
> It's almost like I "koan --replace-self" but that's not what I told
it to
> do. In fact, this is what I executed:
>
> koan --server=cobbler --system=centos-workstation --virt
>
> I literally see the VM install itself, bootloader installs then the VM
> shutdown and is started up again and its as if I initiated the original "koan
> --server=cobbler --system=centos-workstation --virt"
>
> Flossy
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From: *"Bryan Hughes" <bhughes(a)gisfederal.com>
> *To: *"cobbler mailing list" <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:24:53 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [cobbler] Using KOAN to install a VM under CentOS 6.4
> using CentOS Xen...it installs over and over again
>
> it is because of the "Netboot Enabled" flag in cobbler.
>
> After the node begins its kickstart either change netboot enabled to
> false (unchecked) in GUI or run the following command:
>
> cobbler system edit --name=<hostname> --netboot-enabled=0
>
> That should fix it for you.
>
> Make sure you do it AFTER it begins PXE (so during DHCP stage is fine,
> right after it gets its IP).
>
>
> On 11/26/13, 9:30 AM, Scot Floess wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I'm somewhat confounded by what I'm seeing when using KOAN. I have a
> machine running CentOS 6.4 and installed CentOS-Xen using para
> virtualization (my hardware on this box doesn't support full
> virtualization)...
>
> I had an old VM I created under CentOS 5.9 Xen which I migrated over to
> this new machine and it runs fine...
>
> However, I am trying to spin up a new VM and what I see happening is
> the install proceeds as expected (again using KOAN). I see in VNC when the
> boot loader installs and then the VM attempts to reboot and run... What it
> does next is not expected: the install proceeds again...and this continues
> forever... Once it reinstalls, it reboots and reinstalls again...
>
> This all works fine under CentOS 5.x - so it could be Xen 4.2 or it
> could just be me :) Which, BTW, CentOS-Xen is 4.2 I believe.
>
> Thanks ahead of time...
>
> Flossy
>
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